Legendary actor Dick Van Dyke has gotten alot of attention as his home and family were impacted by the wildfires in Malibu California.
The screen legend, who turns 99 today told local news outlets that his neighbors “saved” him.
“It was coming from the hill, you could see it,” the Mary Poppins star said in an interview that aired on the Today show, Thursday, Dec. 12. “And oh my God, and we got out of here. I was trying to crawl to the car, I had exhausted myself, I couldn’t get up.”
Van Dyke then shared that it was his neighbors who rescued him. “Three neighbors came and carried me out and came back and put out a little fire in the guest house and saved me.”
The legendary actor was captured on footage taken from his own Ring Doorbell camera evacuating his property alongside his wife Arlene Silver and their pets.
“Arlene and I have safely evacuated,” he wrote, adding that one of their pets--his cat Bobo-- had gone missing during the event.
“Bobo escaped as we were leaving,” he wrote. “We’re praying he’ll be okay and that our community in Serra Retreat will survive these terrible fires.” He shared video of Bobo with the caption: “Hoping Bobo is okay.” But Bobo's story has a happy ending as the father-of-four revealed in a subsequent Facebook post on Thursday that the orange cat had been found.
"We found Bobo as soon as we arrived back home this morning. There was so much interest in his disappearance that Animal Control was called in to assist. But, thankfully he was easy to find and not harmed," he wrote alongside a love heart emoji.
Here's some of the video of his nightmare.
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