Jay Leno knows the Nov. 12 garage fire that left him with second-degree burns and required skin grafts could have been a lot worse, as he explained in an interview published Tuesday in which he talked about the accident for the first time. “I could have lost an eye,” he said.
The former “Tonight Show” host was at home in Burbank working on his one of his many cars, a 1907 White Steam Car park that had a clogged fuel line. “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,” Leno told People about the antique car.