In an interview with People published on Tuesday (December 13th), Jay Leno shared his experience of the garage fire that left him suffering from second and third-degree burns last month.
“With a steam car, you have gasoline, but you also have a vaporizer which is heated by a pilot light to turn water into steam,” the former Tonight Show host explained. While he was under the car trying to unclog one of the lines, “I got a face full of gasoline,” he recalled. “I knew how close I was to the pilot light and I thought 'Uh oh.'”
“It felt exactly like my face was on fire,” Leno said. “Maybe like the most intense sunburn you've ever had, that'd be fair to say.”