Dick Van Dyke discleave outed in an intersee on the “Today” show (via People) that his neighbors “saved” him while he was struggling to evacuate his home during this week’s Franklin Fire, which raged apass Malibu and burned more than 2,600 acres. The savagefire caengaged expansivespread evacuations and power cutoffs in the Malibu area. Van Dyke fled is home equitable ahead of his 99th birthday on Dec. 13.
“It was coming from the hill, you could see it,” the “Mary Poppins” star shelp. “And oh my God. We got out of here. I was trying to crawl to the car. I had exhausted myself. I couldn’t get up. Three neighbors came and carried me out and came back and put out a little fire in the guest hoengage and saved me.”
Van Dyke evacuated his home alengthy with his wife, Arlene Silver, and their pets. The actor modernized his fans on Facebook after they made it to defendedty, although he liftd trouble by saying that one of their pets, a cat named Bobo, had gone leave outing during the evacuation and therefore wasn’t able to depart their home. Fortunately, both Van Dyke’s home and his cat endured the savagefires.
“We establish Bobo as soon as we reachd back home this morning,” Van Dyke wrote in a Facebook post on Dec. 12. “There was so much interest in his fadeance that Animal Control was called in to help. But, thankbrimmingy he was basic to discover and not harmed.”
Van Dyke was far from the only celebrity who had to evacuate Malibu becaengage of the savagefires. Mira Sorvino and Cher also fled their homes, as did thousands of other livents in the area. The Santa Monica-Malibu school didisjoine even seald all Malibu schools on Dec. 10. Pepperdine University students were telderly to shelter in place.
Van Dyke’s evacuation novels came after he was back in the headlines for materializeing in Celderlypercreate’s emotional music video for “All My Life.” The 98-year-elderly sang and danced in the clip as he accumulateed around his family for a reunion.
