Posted on 01/29/2025 9:05:18 AM PST by Red Badger
The Oscar winners nephew Abe Streep revealed that the actress, 75, had to come up with a creative plan to get to safety.
Hollywood actress Meryl Streep had a tense escape from the Los Angeles wildfires, according to her nephew, Abe Streep. The 75-year-old actress was forced to cut a hole in her fence large enough to drive through while evacuating her home on January 8. The wildfires, which started a day earlier, spread rapidly across parts of the city, forcing many residents to flee.
Abe Streep shared details of the incident in a New York Magazine article, highlighting the destruction caused by the fires. Emergency services have been working to contain the blazes, with officials urging residents to stay alert.
"Evacuation mandates were sent across the city. 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," Abe wrote in the New York Magazine.
"Determined to make it out, she borrowed wire cutters from a neighbour, cut a car-size hole in the fence she shared with the neighbours on the other side, and drove through their yard to escape."
The wildfires, which have devastated large portions of the LA area, first ignited in Pacific Palisades and spread to Malibu and Santa Monica, with the Eaton Fire particularly impacting the Altadena-Pasadena area.
Numerous Hollywood stars have lost their homes in the wildfires, including Pratt's ex-wife Anna Faris, Anthony Hopkins, Billy Crystal, Mel Gibson, Jeff Bridges, Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Paris Hilton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Diane Warren, Cary Elwes, and more.
If it is a car-sized hole, I might have a guess as to how she did it.
Must have done that with her chin and nose.
So disappointed not to see the hole in the fence.
We crashed the gate doing 98 ….
Geez. The Grammys are going to smell like they’ve all been sitting around a campfire making S’mores for a couple months.
Streep will still vote for Mayor Moron Bass and Greasy Gavin Newsom. She is a leftist idiot.
Only one way to leave the property??? That sounds like bad planning.
Witchy-poo like
Did she have a permit from the state of CA for this work?
That’s quite a story, but this caught my eye: “...when she tried to leave, she discovered that a large tree had fallen over in her driveway, blocking her only exit.”
I presume the tree was burned out by fire and toppled which means she waited FAR too long to evacuate. That is so typical of many people. When they wait too long and try to get out, they find the single-lane windy roads are clogged and nobody can move. We read so many stories of people abandoning their cars and running for their lives, then the FDs have to push the cars off the roads.
No doubt it is hard psychologically to leave your home early, but it’s the surest way to save your life.
now that Streep movie I’d pay to see.
I’m surprised that she didn’t just hop on her broom and fly over the obstacle.
Noting the article doesn’t specifically say the house being destroyed in the fires, or whether it survived.
Note too use of “house”: Cold-blooded reptilian adrenochrome-using celebs don’t have normal homes.
Note: She had a fence to keep out unwanted people
Couldn’t care any less about her. She would vote for John Wayne Gacy if he were a DEMOCRAT and trust him to run the Boy Scouts.
Was it needed to be that large?
Did she have a permit? /s
So stunning and brave.
‘ Note: She had a fence to keep out unwanted people’
That’s why I have fencing.
> Did she have a permit from the state of CA for this work? <
That’s an excellent question. And beyond that, Streep is probably not in any kind of construction or trades union. Someone should look into how she shamelessly ignored the rules liberals just love.
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