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Meryl Streep’s Heroic Escape From L.A. Fires Revealed

The Oscar-winning actress had to think fast.

Meryl Streep, 75, had to make a harrowing getaway because a fallen tree blocked her evacuation from the L.A. fires, her nephew Abe Streep revealed in New York Magazine. “My aunt Meryl Streep received an order to evacuate on January 8, but when she tried to leave, she discovered that a large tree had fallen over in her driveway, blocking her only exit,” he writes. Streep managed to make it off of her Palisades property, but only after getting creative about her exit. “Determined to make it out, she borrowed wire cutters from a neighbor, cut a car-size hole in the fence she shared with the neighbors on the other side, and drove through their yard to escape,” the article continues, examining the fires’ impact on the many Angelenos who lost their homes and neighborhoods. Abe Streep also spoke with actor Martin Short (Streep’s Only Murders in the Building co-star and rumored beau) about his own evacuation for the article. “I will definitely stay in my home,” Short, whose home was spared, told the writer.