A. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan now, or online at cspan. Org. President biden talked about fire prevention, Climate Change, and the mental and physical stresses that firefighters face. He spoke virtually from the white house at the u. S. Fire administrators summit. Summit. Pres. Biden hello, hello, hello. Thank you, dr. Lori, for that introduction. You and your team deserve tremendous credit for what youve accomplished over these last two years. And a special hello to ed kelly, my good friend. Ed, i cant see you out there, but im sure youre around. And chief kevin quinn as well. Look, i joined this summit virtually last year, and i wanted to be with you in person this year. But there was a critical issue, and it required me to stay at the white house to respond to the terrorist attacks in israel. Weve gotten word that several firefighters have already been killed in the assault on israel, and dr. Lori and her team are in touch with fire officials on the ground. You have heard me say befo
He spoke from the white house at the white house summit. We had 61 firefighters deaths in the United States and far too many funerals that i have attended from coast to coast. This is a dangerous profession and no getting around it. And what we can do to make the job safer and thats what i want to talk about today. The effects of the Climate Change becoming more severe and firefighters never trained to fight wildfires are facing wildfires head on and we visited maui. I have a bit of a cold. Firefighters have taken on and own homes burnt to the ground. This is National Fire prevention week and one thing we can do is to prevent the fires in the first place and offering federal grants to help local dprants adopt the most up to date building codes and make structures more resilient. And makes a difference, in january of last year, fire tore through Affordable Housing units can killing 12 people and smoke defectors didnt work. I signed a bill that requires Affordable Housing units to have t
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