Dick Van Dyke, 99, performs with his a cappella group as he hosts fire relief fundraiser with his wife

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Palisades Fires ravaged the area in January.Van Dyke was pictured using a cane in the parking lot as he left the event.Van Dyke and his wife’s $8 million Malibu home was threatened by the deadly Palisades Fire, but the couple didn’t end up evacuating their house.Silver shared in an Instagram Live that while their home was okay, their guest house caught fire but only sustained minimal damage.

She also said they were living on a gas generator as the wildfire continued to tear through the area.“Keeping Dick warm and entertained has been the two things that have been my top priority, so, you know, we don’t have power […] or regular electricity, so we don’t have Wi-Fi,” Silver said at the time, adding they had been relying on her camper to cook and charge their devices.Silver also shared that despite the Southern California fires, she and Van Dyke have no desire to relocate.“Dick is more comfortable here than anywhere else,” she said. “It’s easier to take care of him here.”Silver also called her husband a “trooper,” sharing, “I don’t know of any other person of, you know, senior citizen age that would put up with this.”In December, shortly before Van Dyke’s 99th birthday, the star was evacuated from Malibu after the Franklin Fire threatened his home.“We got out of here,” he said in an interview on “Today” at the time. “I was trying to crawl to the car, I had exhausted myself, I couldn’t get up.”Van Dyke revealed that his neighbors came to his rescue.

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