The nearly 99-year-old said he was trying to crawl to his car when three neighbors came to the rescue. Dick Van Dyke recounted his harrowing Malibu fire evacuation story on Thursday. The nearly 99-year-old said his neighbors helped carry him to the car as they watched the blaze approach.

Dick Van Dyke credits neighbors with saving his life and his house after the Franklin Fire inched its way to toward his Malibu home earlier this week.

The “Mary Poppins” star, who turns 99 on Dec. 13, shared on Facebook earlier this week that he and his wife, Arlene Silver, had escaped the fires safely. Security footage from their home shows the couple evacuating with their animals, but Van Dyke wrote in his Facebook post that their cat, Bobo, had gone missing.