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.

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