Hollywood legend Meryl Streep took drastic action to flee the deadly LA.. wildfires after a tree fell across the driveway of her $4.5 million Pasadena house.

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 a piece for 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.

The Oscar winners nephew Abe Streep revealed that the actress, 75, had to come up with a creative plan to get to safety.

Meryl Streep is apparently level-headed during a crisis. The actress’s nephew, Abe Streep, shared in an article for New York magazine that Streep had to go to extreme lengths to evacuate during the Los Angeles fires.

In a New York Magazine article published on January 28, Abe Streep, Meryl Streep's nephew, wrote about how the LA wildfires affected his community.

Meryl Streep was one of thousands of Pacific Palisades residents who had to evacuate in January due to deadly wildfires

Meryl Streep took matters into her own hands — literally — as wildfires rampaged across Los Angeles County earlier this month.