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

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

The comic sat down for an interview with NBC News’ Hoda Kotb and advised her how some mechanical work on one in every of his classic vehicles turned ugly in 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 advised his good friend, Dave Killackey, to blow some air by way of the gas line when out of the blue he was hit with a face filled with gasoline … and it solely acquired worse from there.

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

Fortunately, Jay says Dave was Johnny on the spot … pulling him out of hurt’s method and leaping on prime of him to smother the fireplace.

Jay’s again to enterprise as standard already … he is fairly informal in recalling the scary scenario … which jives with how he is been because the 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 in the hospital however when he was launched from the burn middle he went proper again to what he does greatest … making of us chortle, even at his personal expense, returning to his weekly Sunday evening gig in Hermosa Beach.