Thankfully, Jay’s good friend Dave Killackey was there to take quick life-saving action.
“I said to my friend, I said, ‘Dave, I’m on fire,'” Jay recalled. “And Dave’s like, ‘All right.’ I said, ‘No, Dave, I’m on fire.’ And then, ‘Oh, my god.’ Dave, my friend, pulled me out and jumped on top of me and kind of smothered the fire.”
Following the traumatic occurrence, Jay—who drove himself home after the incident—was later admitted to Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles. There, he spent 10 days under their care before being released into the clinic’s outpatient facility.
Not only did Jay have a friend by his side during the accident, but he was also visited at the hospital by Tim Allen. At the time, Tim shared that Jay’s good spirits were in tact while on the mend.
“He’s feeling better,” Tim said in footage obtained by TMZ. “We did some jokes, which is what we do. We commiserated.”