Whereas talking with a neighborhood information outlet, Van Dyke, who turns 99 on Friday, credit his neighbors for saving him.

“It was coming from the hill, you would see it,” the longtime actor mentioned in an interview that aired on the Right now present Thursday. “And oh my God, and we bought out of there. I used to be attempting to crawl to the automobile, I had exhausted myself, I could not rise up.”

Van Dyke then shared that it was his neighbors who finally got here to his rescue.

“Three neighbors got here and carried me out and got here again and put out a bit of fireplace within the visitor home and saved me,” The Mary Poppins star added.

Van Dyke was seen on footage taken from his personal Ring Doorbell digicam evacuating his property alongside his spouse Arlene Silver and their pets.

In a submit shared to Fb Tuesday, Van Dyke reassured followers that he had escaped the fires and was secure, however famous that one in all their pets had gone lacking as they had been attempting to evacuate.

“Arlene and I’ve safely evacuated,” he wrote. “Bobo escaped as we had been leaving. We’re praying he’ll be okay and that our group in Serra Retreat will survive these horrible fires.”

Bobo too would have a cheerful ending, with the father-of-four revealing in a subsequent Fb submit on Thursday that the orange cat had been discovered.

“We discovered Bobo as quickly as we arrived again dwelling this morning. There was a lot curiosity in his disappearance that Animal Management was referred to as in to help. However, fortunately he was straightforward to search out and never harmed,” Van Dyke wrote alongside a love coronary heart emoji.

The display screen legend is one in all tens of 1000’s of people that needed to be evacuated from the Malibu space due to the Franklin Hearth, which started on Monday, Dec. 9.

Different well-known faces who’ve additionally needed to depart their properties embrace music icon Cher, 78, and actresses Jane Seymour and Mira Sorvino, who additionally revealed that she evacuated in a submit on X (previously Twitter).

“All my Malibu associates and neighbors I pray that you’re secure. We evacuated in the midst of the night time, children and pets all accounted for! Scary instances!!” the Romy and Michele’s Excessive College Reunion star, 57, wrote.