The three-time Oscar winner had to act quickly after a tree had blocked her car's path out of harm's way, according to an account from her nephew in New York Magazine.

Meryl Streep's nephew Abe Streep wrote in 'New York Magazine' that Meryl was forced to "cut a car-size hole in the fence she shared with the neighbors on the other side" with wire-cutters to escape her home after wildfires in Los Angeles broke out on Jan.

Meryl Streep was blocked in during the L.A. wildfires, so she 'cut a car-sized hole in the fence' to escape through her neighbor's yard, her nephew reports.