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Meryl Streep cut a car-sized hole in her garden fence to escape LA fires


The actor’s nephew has described his aunt’s determined efforts to flee her Los Angeles home during this month’s devastating wildfires

The actor Meryl Streep made a dramatic escape from the fires which killed 28 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures across Los Angeles earlier this month, her nephew has reported. The Oscar-winning actor, he wrote, received an order to evacuate on 8 January, the day after the onset of the Palisades and Eaton fires, but on attempting to leave “discovered that a large tree had fallen over in her driveway, blocking her only exit. Elsewhere in the article, Abe Streep spoke to his aunt’s Only Murders in the Building co-star, Martin Short, who also encountered difficulties escaping the house in the Palisades he bought in 1984.

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