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.

Streep had to find another way. “Determined to make it out, she borrowed wire cutters from a neighbor, cut a car-size hole in the fence she shared with the neighbors on the other side, and drove through their yard to escape,” her nephew says in the story.

Legendary Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep's brave escape from the Los Angeles wildfires recently went viral due to the valiant act she made to evacuate safely.

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

Meryl Streep had to get resourceful while narrowly escaping the LA wildfires according to an account from her nephew. As multiple wildfires raged across the city in early January, a quick-thinking Meryl Streep managed to escape by cutting a car-size hole in the fence on one side of her house and then driving to safety,