Joe Biden comforts victims of Colorado wildfire
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Biden offers hugs and kind words
US President Joe Biden, along with his wife Jill Biden, arrived at a neighbourhood in Louisville offering hugs and comforting people hit by wildfires that ravaged Colorado last week.
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Biden surveys wildfire damage
They walked along a street where homes were burned to their concrete foundations. Nearly 1,100 buildings, most of them homes, were destroyed in the fire that swept through heavily populated suburbs between Denver and Boulder.
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Lauds courage of those who lost homes
Biden spoke of the "incredible courage" of those who lost their homes in peak winter. He also promised federal support to help them rebuild. Some 35,000 were forced to flee their homes.
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Cause of the fire
It is not yet clear how the blaze started. Investigators have zeroed in on the video of a burning shed, but it is still too early to say for sure.
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'Need to address climate change'
Biden said the extreme events highlight that America needs to "summon the courage" to address climate change. The fire broke out unusually late in December following months of drought with a dry fall and a winter with hardly any snow.