Jay Leno Explains Moment He Got Third-Degree Burns in Car Fire

Jay Leno is breaking down the automobile fireplace that despatched him to a burn unit with second- and third-degree burns … and he is fairly cool when speaking concerning the fiery episode.

The comic sat down for an interview with NBC News’ Hoda Kotb and informed her how some mechanical work on one in every of his classic automobiles turned ugly within the blink of a watch.

Jay says he was in his Burbank storage final month engaged on a 1907 White Steam Car, attempting to unclog a gas line. He says he informed his buddy, Dave Killackey, to blow some air via the gas line when all of the sudden he was hit with a face stuffed with fuel … and it solely bought worse from there.

Jay says his face caught fireplace when the automobile’s pilot mild ignited the gas … and he yelled to his buddy, “I’m on fireplace.”

Fortunately, Jay says Dave was Johnny on the spot … pulling him out of hurt’s means and leaping on high of him to smother the hearth.

Jay’s again to enterprise as normal already … he is fairly informal in recalling the scary state of affairs … which jives with how he is been for the reason that accident, like when he went again to the identical storage simply 10 days after the incident and was cracking jokes to photogs.

The former “Jay Leno’s Garage” host canceled some gigs whereas he was within the hospital however when he was launched from the burn heart he went proper again to what he does greatest … making of us chuckle, even at his personal expense, returning to his weekly Sunday evening gig in Hermosa Beach.