Jay Leno Compares LAFD Wildfire Camp to a 'Military Operation'

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Jay Leno is determined to do what he can to help the Los Angeles firefighters combatting the ongoing wildfires in the region ... comparing their efforts to a "military operation."

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00:00Jay Leno has been out there really giving his time, his effort, and money, I'm sure,

00:10to support the firefighters and all the first responders.

00:14Jay, welcome back to TMZ Live.

00:17Thanks.

00:18I'm heading out there.

00:19As I finished you, we got my antique fire truck in the background there, load that up

00:23with food, and started handing it out to the guys.

00:25These guys can eat.

00:26Oh, my God.

00:27Well, they're working up an appetite, right?

00:29Yeah, no kidding.

00:30Like, 700 meals yesterday, and it's like, more chicken!

00:34Hey, weren't you just in line a minute ago?

00:39Yeah, no problem, man.

00:40You know, Jay, what I was going to say, does this feel like, and I know you've done some

00:44of these events, does it feel like a USO event when you get out there?

00:49You know something?

00:50When I pulled into Malibu, it looked like Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.

00:53I mean, hundreds of tents, well, yeah, probably a couple of hundred tents, men sleeping in

00:59tents on the ground, men and women, firefighters.

01:02We have the National Guard.

01:04We have prisoners, for the L.A. correction, and they're out there, and they need every

01:12help they can get.

01:13I mean, it's a well-organized military complex.

01:17I mean, the way you pull in, go left, go right, don't do here, don't sit there, hospital is

01:22over here, food is over here, showers are over here, bathrooms are over here.

01:27I mean, it's a military operation, and you know, L.A. Fire, I'm not just saying this,

01:34they really are the best fire department in the world, because there's almost no other

01:38place that has to deal with emergency like this, where all of a sudden, a hundred mile

01:43an hour winds right now.

01:45It was five miles an hour a minute ago, now it's a hundred miles an hour, which becomes

01:49a blowtorch.

01:50So these men and women are really, I mean, look at that.

01:53I mean, I was on one of the streets where a bunch of cars are coming down the hill,

01:59the fire came, people just left their cars and ran away.

02:03The cars have literally melted together in the middle of the street, right near the canyon.

02:12It's really something.

02:14To have heaven and hell in the same place is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

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