Legendary Hollywood star Dick Van Dyke described the harrowing escape he and his wife Arlene made from the fire raging in Malibu in southern California this week.
Speaking to NBC News, the 98-year-old actor said they were able to get their animals and themselves safely away from the wind-driven Franklin fire thanks to some neighbors who he said saved his life.
“I wasn’t ready. This time I messed up … I have a fire hose that hooks up to my pool, and shoots like a 70-foot stream of water,” the actor said. “Well, I wasn’t ready. I went out.”
“It was snarled, and I’m out there laying on the ground trying to undo this fire hose, and the fire’s coming over the hill,” he added. “What I did was exhaust myself. I forgot how old I am, and I realized I was crawling to get out. It was coming from over the hill, you could see it.”
Dick Van Dyke says neighbors “saved me”…
