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Meryl Streep Had to ‘Cut a Car-Sized Hole’ in Her Fence and Drive Through Her Neighbor’s Yard to Evacuate the L.A. Fires


The only way Meryl Streep could evacuate home during the LA fires was to cut a hole in her fence and drive through a neighbor's yard.

Meryl Streep ‘s nephew Abe revealed in a New York Magazine report that the Oscar-winning actor had to a cut a “car-size hole” in her fence in order to evacuate the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this month. “My aunt Meryl Streep received an order to evacuate on Jan. 8, but when she tried to leave, she discovered that a large tree had fallen over in her driveway, blocking her only exit,” Abe wrote. Abe wrote in the article that Streep’s “Only Murders in the Building” co-star “Martin Short’s home was spared, though one of his sons lost his house nearby.

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