Meryl Streep cut a ‘car-size hole in the fence’ to escape L.A. fire: ‘Determined to make it out’

Meryl Streep jumped into action when an obstacle almost prevented her from evacuating her home as the deadly fires swept through Los Angeles this month.

The Oscar winner’s nephew, Abe Streep, wrote about her nerve-wracking escape in an article for New York Magazine about the fires published on Tuesday.

He revealed that when Streep, 75, tried to evacuate her home on January 8, one day after several wildfires began scorching the city, she was forced to cut a large enough hole in her fence to drive her car through after a tree blocked her only exit.

“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,” her nephew, an author, wrote. “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.”

The Post reached out to the actress for comment.

Streep’s rumored boyfriend, her “Only Murders in the Building” co-star, Martin Short, 74, also spoke to her nephew, detailing his struggle to escape his Pacific Palisades neighborhood after one of his sons warned him to evacuate his home.