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.

Former U.S. swimmer Gary Hall Jr. was presented with 10 Olympic medals to replace the ones he won from 1996-2004 but he lost in the Palisades fire.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — After all his Olympic medals were destroyed in the Los Angeles fires, swimming great Gary Hall Jr. set an unexpected record replacing them at IOC headquarters Monday.

Swimmer Gary Hall Jr., whose post-graduate training at Cal helped him win 10 Olympic medals, lost those medals earlier this year when his home was destroyed by fires at Pacific Palisades.

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 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.

Swimmer Gary Hall Jr., whose post-graduate training at Cal helped him win 10 Olympic medals, lost those medals earlier this year when his home was destroyed by fires at Pacific Palisades.

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.

After all his Olympic medals were destroyed in the Los Angeles fires, swimming great Gary Hall Jr. set an unexpected record replacing them at IOC headquarters Monday.