“Three neighbors came and carried me out and came back and put out a little fire in the guest house and saved me,” Van Dyke said in his testimony.
After barely surviving the flames that raged through his home in Malibu, California, Dick Van Dyke has his neighbors to thank for their support.
During an interview with a local news organization, Van Dyke, who will be 99 years old on Friday, expressed his gratitude to his neighbors for saving his life.
The veteran actor said, “It was coming from the hill, you could see it,” in an interview that was shown on the Today program on Thursday. And, oh my God, we were able to escape from that place. I had tired myself to the point that I was unable to get up and was attempting to crawl to the vehicle.
After thereafter, Van Dyke revealed that his neighbors were the ones who eventually came to his aid with their assistance.
“Three neighbors came and carried me out and came back and put out a little fire in the guest house and saved me,” the actress who appeared in Mary Poppins said.
From the clip that was captured by his own Ring Doorbell camera, it was possible to observe Van Dyke, together with his wife Arlene Silver and their cats, evacuate their home.
Van Dyke attempted to reassure his followers that he had fled the inferno and was okay in a message that he published on Facebook on Tuesday. However, he also said that one of their dogs had disappeared while they were attempting to flee.
He wrote, “Arlene and I have successfully evacuated the building.” “As we were leaving, Bobo managed to get away. We are hoping that he will be alright and that each member of our community at Serra Retreat will be able to escape these horrific flames.
In a second post on Facebook on Thursday, the father of four said that the orange cat had been located, indicating that Bobo, too, would have a happy ending.
“We were able to locate Bobo as soon as we returned to our residence this morning. As a result of the extraordinary amount of interest in his disappearance, Animal Control was requested to provide assistance. “However, thankfully, he was not injured and was not difficult to locate,” Van Dyke said beside an emoji of a heart made of love.
As a result of the Franklin Fire, which started on Monday, December 9, the screen legend was one of the tens of thousands of individuals who were forced to escape from the Malibu region.
Other well-known people who have been forced to flee their houses include the music legend Cher, who is 78 years old, as well as the actresses Jane Seymour and Mira Sorvino, who also disclosed that they had to abandon their homes in a post on X (which was then known as Twitter).
Every single one of my friends and neighbors in Malibu, I hope that you are all safe. We fled in the middle of the night, and we made sure that all of the children and animals were safe. It’s a crazy time!! This is what the 57-year-old star of Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion wrote.