Gary Hall Jr.'s harrowing experience escaping the Los Angeles wildfires in January, and seeing his home engulfed in flames, was not the first time he was in a life-threatening situation.

Olympic great Gary Hall Jr. had 10 medals that were destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires replaced by the IOC in a ceremony on Monday.

Olympic swim great Gary Hall Jr. awarded 10 medals to replace those destroyed in Palisades fire Hall set an unexpected record replacing them at IOC headquarters Monday.

Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr. gets medal replicas for 10 lost in LA wildfires Hall left his 10 Olympic medals behind at his Pacific Palisades home in January during the wildfires.

Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr. had earned 10 medals across three Olympic games, but they all were destroyed when wildfires burned across Los Angeles earlier this year.

After all of swimming great Gary Hall Jr.'s Olympic medals were destroyed in the Los Angeles fires he set an unexpected record replacing them at IOC headquarters.