Jay Leno 'sprayed with gas' when steam car ignited at Burbank garage

[SEIndSAM]

Jay Leno 'sprayed with gas' when steam car ignited at Burbank garage, fire officials responded to emergency

Jay Leno was sprayed with gasoline which erupted into a fire while working on a steam car at his garage in Los Angeles. Fire officials transported him to a burn center.

www.foxnews.com

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Yikes!

 

[KellyinAvon]

Scary stuff.

 

[mom45]

I saw an article about him having a medical emergency related to a fire in one of his cars from his collection. Scary...I hope he is okay.

 

[thunderchicken]

Fire can be scary stuff. From the article it sounds like he is doing alright so that's good to hear. I wouldn't wish burns on anyone. Hopefully he'll have a speedy recovery

 

[Basher]

Oof! I had a fuel line burst and spray my face in auto shop back in high school, but thankfully it didn’t ignite. Scared the crap out of me though. I hope he has a speedy recovery, burns suck!

 

[Ark]

Ouch. Not sure exactly how the steam car system works but anything working with pressurized gasoline fuel systems can potentially rupture and ignite. Thats why you keep the car and the garage stocked with extinguishers.

 

[bgcatty]

Terrible accident! Hopefully Jay will recover and heal quickly. Best wishes Jay for your recovery!

 

[HoughMade]

This is when everything goes well, but it gives an idea of the issue.

Look at 3:10 of this video:



Also, start at about 4:30 here:



I know there's a video of a small explosion while lighting from years ago somewhere. I will post when I find it.

 

[HoughMade]

I have looked and looked and others have mentioned the video, but I have not found it.

Years ago, there was a Jay Leno's Garage video of him starting, I think, a Stanley Steamer (but it could have been one of his other steam cars). When he went to put the flame to it, it flared up and there was a big ball of flame that singed his hair, but that was it.

These things use gasoline to boil the water. They pressurize the gas tank with air, in one instance, I saw over 120 psi. This pushes the gasoline from the tank up to the boiler, then the gasoline is atomized for burning.

You can see how this could go bad easily. Jay jokes about this exact thing in several of his steam car videos.

 

[Ark]

These things use gasoline to boil the water. They pressurize the gas tank with air, in one instance, I saw over 120 psi. This pushes the gasoline from the tank up to the boiler, then the gasoline is atomized for burning.

Mechanical low pressure fuel pumps are for plebes! Real men pressurize the fuel tank so 100% of the fuel will violently exit through any breach in the system regardless of whether the system is powered on or not!

That's nuts. And I thought high pressure booster systems for direct injection were sketchy.

 

[shootersix]

This is when everything goes well, but it gives an idea of the issue.

Look at 3:10 of this video:



Also, start at about 4:30 here:



I know there's a video of a small explosion while lighting from years ago somewhere. I will post when I find it.

Ok so here’s a cool thing, Dennis Gage (the guy with the handle bar mustache) lives (or at least used too) in boonville Indiana and the voice over guy from “Hemings my classic car” was Brian Jackson a dj from a radio station in Owensboro, and the production company was here in Evansville!

I watched jay leno talking about his “steamers” and them being a vehicle where you could die from the car crash, burning to death, steamed to death or drowning!

I think he’s probably one of the only truly famous people I’d like to meet, he seems like a true down to earth celebrity who would be genuine, honest, and carry a great conversation!

 

[HoughMade]

Sounds like the burns are pretty bad. Not life threatening, but he will probably end up with significant scarring to his face, hands and chest. That's what I take from this:

 

[SEIndSAM]

 

[KG1]

Hopefully this pic was posted by the NY Post with his approval.

 

[blain]

Hopefully this pic was posted by the NY Post with his approval.

From what his doctor said, I got that Jay wants to let people know how he's doing.

 

[KG1]

From what his doctor said, I got that Jay wants to let people know how he's doing.

I get that too. I saw the press conference. Just saying that there are unscrupulous people that would possibly do something like that. Not saying there were, just hoping that was not the case.

 

[SEIndSAM]

 

[printcraft]

A little crispy but it should buff out.

 

[HoughMade]

I sure it hurts like hell, but that's not too bad.