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Dick Van Dyke Details 'Exhausting' Escape from Malibu Wildfires: ‘I Was Trying to Crawl to the Car’


Screen legend Dick Van Dyke has shared details of his dramatic escape from the Malibu wildfires in a local news interview which was aired on the 'Today' show, Thursday, Dec. 12

The legendary actor was captured on footage taken from his own Ring Doorbell camera evacuating his property alongside his wife Arlene Silver and their pets. Van Dyke is one of tens of thousands of people who had to be evacuated from the Malibu area after the Franklin Fire which began on Monday, Dec. 9. "Cher was required to evacuate her home and did so in the very early hours of Tuesday morning," a rep for the pop star told PEOPLE after The New York Times reported the news on Dec. 10.

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