It’s a big day for stage and screen legend Dick Van Dyke, as the actor turned 99 years old on December 13. I’m not sure what the man possibly known best for his eponymous 1960s sitcom and for playing Bert in Mary Poppins — the best Disney movie of its decade — had planned to celebrate his 99th trip around the sun,

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.