The comedian downplayed the incident that left him with third-degree burns in a sit-down interview with NBC’s ‘Today’ show
“It was a 1907 White Steam Car. The fuel line was clogged, so I was underneath it. It sounded clogged and I said, ‘Blow some air through the line’, and so he did,” said Mr Leno, talking about the November 12 incident.
He recalled that the fuel line made some noise. “And suddenly, boom, I got a face full of gas. And then the pilot light jumped and my face caught on fire.”