Meryl Streep's nephew revealed the 75-year-old actress cut a "car-size hole" in a fence in order to escape the wildfires.

Meryl Streep, 75, had to make a harrowing getaway because a fallen tree blocked her evacuation from the L.A. fires, her nephew Abe Streep revealed in New York Magazine. “My aunt Meryl Streep received an order to evacuate on January 8,

Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,448 acres after being active for 19 days. A crew of 1,859 firefighters has been working on site and they managed to contain 87% of the fire by Sunday morning. The blaze's cause remains under investigation.

At least 29 people are believed to be dead and more than a dozen others remain unaccounted for as multiple wildfires rage across Southern California.

The death toll from the wildfires plaguing the Los Angeles area in the United States has risen to 29. The coroner’s office announced on Monday evening that one person died in hospital over the weekend as a result of the “Palisades’’ fire on the western edge of Los Angeles.