Jay Leno appeared to be bruise-free when he volunteered to help out first responders battling the LA fires on Tuesday.

Late last year, the 74-year-old comedian and late-night talk show host disclosed that he had sustained dark bruises on his face and body following a perilous fall down a hill just outside the hotel where he was staying.

Despite his recent mishap, he appeared unscathed as he was photographed driving a gleaming red vintage fire truck from his garage in Burbank to an event in Los Angeles.

As a well-known car enthusiast, he brought several pounds of ribs to treat firefighters and other emergency services personnel as a gesture of appreciation for their hard work.

The event comes as massive fires continue to burn in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, along with smaller blazes across Los Angeles.

So far, 24 people have died as a result of the fires, and over 180,000 people have been forced to evacuate. 

Leno’s truck was considerably smaller than modern American fire trucks.

The convertible was compact and lower to the ground, and it was designed more like pickup truck with a long bed behind a front row of seating.

The former Tonight Show host was behind the wheel for the drive, and he was joined by a friend in the passenger seat.

The friend helped spot Leno has he backed out of his Burbank garage.

The stand-up veteran looked as casual as ever in a black-and-red plaid flannel hooded jacket, which he wore over a white shirt with thin black horizontal stripes. 

He stuck to the workwear theme with rugged jeans, and he wore comfortable black shoes. 

Leno’s fire truck, which was decked out with spotlights and red emergency lights, had gold decorative paint wrapping around the hood and sides of the vehicle, and both doors were decorated with firefighting seals.

It apparently didn’t have a full tank when they drove it out of the garage, so he had to drop by a gas station on the way to the charity cookout. 

Leno’s friend was seen filling up at the pump while he went inside the attached convenience store.

The former television fixture worried fans last year after he appeared in November sporting terrible dark bruises all over his body, as well as an eye patch, a sling for a broken wrist and a cast over one finger, where he later revealed he lost the entire nail.

Later in November, Leno revealed to Inside Edition that he sustained the shocking injuries after taking a 60ft fall near a Hampton Inn in Greenhouse, Pennsylvania.

He said he had been trying to visit a nearby restaurant ahead of a show he was scheduled to perform that evening when he tried to take a shortcut.

‘To get to [the restaurant], I didn’t have a car, so you had to walk about a mile and a half around,’ he explained. 

‘I said, “Well, the hill doesn’t look that steep. It’s about 60–70 feet. Let me see if I can go down the hill,”‘ he continued.

But Leno lost his footing due to the steep slope and uneven terrain, and he crashed down to the bottom of the hill.

‘Boom, boom, boom. I rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, knocked me in the eye,’ Leno added of the incident.

Some fans didn’t buy the explanation and took to social media to theorize about his injuries.

Some posters joked that he was in debt to mobsters who had roughed him up over gambling losses.

Fueling the conspiracy theories and jokes was a previous injury Leno sustained in 2023. 

That summer he broke both of his kneecaps in what he later said was a motorcycle crash. 

The accident-prone comic’s injuries followed a 2022 incident in which he suffered serious burns to his face.

He had been working on an old steam-powered car that used gasoline to heat water, turning it into steam that could in turn move the pistons.

The car he was working on burst into flames without explanation, and Leno was reportedly sprayed on the face with the burning gasoline.

Firefighters were promptly called to the garage to put out the blaze, and Leno was taken to a hospital, but his injuries were not said to be life threatening. 

Leno has maintained a busy stand-up career ever since signing off from The Tonight Show in 2014.

He began hosting the iconic late-night show in 1992, when he took over from Johnny Carson after behind-the-scenes feuding with Late Night host David Letterman, who was also vying for the job.

Leno led The Tonight Show until 2009, when he was replaced by Conan O’Brien, who had been promised the hosting gig years earlier by NBC.

But Leno didn’t leave the network completely, and instead he began hosting The Jay Leno Show at 10 p.m. on week nights, ahead of The Tonight Show’s regular time slot.

NBC affiliates complained of declining ratings for both shows, and after O’Brien refused a new plan to push his show back half an hour to allow Leno to do an intro stand-up show, the former Simpson’s writer left the show, allowing Leno to return as Tonight Show host until 2014.