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 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.

"I couldn’t get up."Dick Van Dyke is in the middle of a very eventful birthday week.The stage and screen legend, who turns 99 on Friday, was among the thousands of California residents advised to evacuate from their homes in the midst of this week's Franklin Fire,