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Posted on 11/21/2022 12:47:09 PM PST by Red Badger
Jay Leno suffered "serious burns" in a gasoline fire on Nov. 12, but looked happy and healthy in a photo shared Monday after he was discharged from the Grossman Burn Center
Jay Leno is headed home.
The former Tonight Show host, 72, was discharged from Grossman Burn Center in the Los Angeles area on Monday, nine days after he suffered "serious burns" in a garage gasoline fire. Center staff shared an image of the smiling comedian alongside several of his caretakers.
"Comedian Jay Leno was released from the Grossman Burn Center today," doctors shared in a release obtained by PEOPLE on Monday. "After a 10-day stay at the facility, Jay will receive follow-up care at the Grossman Outpatient Burn Clinic for burns to his face, chest and hands he received during a fire at his home garage. Jay would like to let everyone know how thankful he is for the care he received, and is very appreciative of all of the well wishes. He is looking forward to spending Thanksgiving with his family and friends and wishes everyone a wonderful holiday."
Within the statement, his physician Dr. Peter Grossman added, "I am pleased with Jay's progress, and I am optimistic that he will make a full recovery."
Leno underwent treatment involving surgical excision and grafting procedure, which removes unhealthy tissue in an effort to promote wound healing and reduce the risk of infection. Grossman said that with Leno's burns, "much of the thickness of the skin was injured" in some areas, so unhealthy tissue was being removed.
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ouch
sorry....burns are painful....remembering back to my ironing days...
Had to fight a diesel fire on one of our vehicles once, the driver had hit driven the pig to the side of the road, hit the brake and leaped out with his cammie pants on fire, forgot to kill the engine. So diesel kept pumping into the engine compartment to feed the fire. Someone threw on his Nomex gloves and managed to reach under the hatch coaming to hit the Halon system while another Marine suppressed the flames with a CO2 extinguisher, and even the Halon didn’t stop it. I think we went through 4 CO2 bottles killing that fire. Very unpleasant.
It’s funny, I never cared for Jay when he was a television host but he’s carried himself so well since and love his car show. Looks like he was extremely lucky judging by the photo.
That sounds really horrendous! Yike!
Leno was the last late-night comedian I could stomach. After him, it became a woke-leftist snowflake wasteland.
Goofy looking bastard, can’t tell anything was done.
Diesel is hard to start.
Even harder to stop..................
Speaking in the car vernacular, that won’t be buffing out. Sounds like he was lucky it wasn’t any worse than it was.
I remember burning my wrist on the exhaust manifold of a lawnmower while refilling the gas tank. That hurt like hell, and the area turned white, but with this being the 1980s, rather than the snowflaky 2020s, I simply got my seventeen-year-old self back to work after about 10 or 15 minutes and finished the lawn.
I hope he’ll be fine. He seems a good person.
What burn marks?
His hair does not seem to be affected at all.
Much to do about nothing.
“Diesel is hard to start. Even harder to stop.”
That applied to a Volvo suv we used to have! And it was gas powered!
Looks like he is ready to head back into the garage....
What happens when you’re in a hurry and cut corners. We’d been pulling maintenance on the pigs when we were told to load up and drive to the Armory for weapons turn-in. The driver of said vehicle didn’t replace the firewall between the driver’s compartment and the engine, which sat directly to the right of the driver. The engine had started smoking while we were in the field, and the mechs said they’d look at it once we were back from the armory. So the engine caught fire while it was on the road, the flames immediately shot into the driver’s compartment. Some psychology for you: the driver had the flames coming from his right. He drove his pig across the oncoming lane and ditched it on the other side of the road. He was instinctively steering the vehicle away from the flames though clearly that was not helpful. He wound up with some first degree burns, and a set of cammie pants that exposed him rather embarrassingly.
Me too!
I couldn’t stand Letterman once he went to CBS. His demeanor seemed really menacing once he was the top dog.
I can’t tell if those are his work clothes that he came in with, or if his wife brought him a clean pair of “dress” clothes to wear.
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