What to KnowSix-time Emmy winner Dick Van Dyke recounted the harrowing moments a wind-driven wildfire neared his home above the Malibu coast. The screen and stage actor, who turns 99 Friday, says he tried to undo a snarled fire hose when he saw the Franklin Fire near his Serra Retreat neighborhood.

Dick, 98, previously told concerned fans that Bobo the cat had escaped as he and his wife evacuated their Malibu home with their other pets on Tuesday evening.