As fires raged through Los Angeles County earlier this month, Meryl Streep actually took things into her own hands.
The Oscar-winning artist, according to brother Abe Streep, sprang into action after a fallen trees blocked her driveway the day after wind-stoked burns erupted in the area. In his terrible accounts of the ancient fires in Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Hollywood that was published Tuesday in New York Magazine, Streep wrote that his uncle, 75, borrowed a friend’s wire cutters and” split a car-size hole in the fence” they shared.
The” Devil Wears Prada” sun, “determined to make it out”, therefore drove through her neighbor’s yard to leave, her brother recalled.
Meryl Streep was one of a select few place people whose stories about the fires, which have claimed 29 life and destroyed more than 15, 000 buildings, were covered in the New York article. The younger Streep also spoke to a longstanding West Altadena native, a Palisades indigenous and teacher, professional Haley Joel Osment and his grandmother’s” Only Murders in the Building” co-star Martin Short, among people.
Quick, who was aware “right ahead” in the beginning of his career that he would move to Pacific Palisades and purchase it in 1984, assured Abe Streep that he” will definitely be in my home” despite one of his sons losing a home. Osment, a star of” Blink Twice,” and” The Sixth Sense” said he and his parents lost their homes in the Eaton fire.
In one of the most destructive firestorms to hit Los Angeles County in recent memory, at least 130, 000 Angelenos fled for safety — with celebrities among those , reeling from the devastation.
As of Tuesday morning, the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes fires in L. A. County were 95 %, 99 % and 98 % contained, respectively, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. San Diego County’s involvement in the Border 2 fire was given a 74 % rating. No homes burned in , Hollywood’s Sunset fire, which was fully contained on Jan. 9.
The rainstorm in recent days , brought much-needed moisture , to Southern California and welcome relief to fire-weary Angelenos. Although the amount of rain wasn’t enough to stop fire season from spreading into February, National Weather Service meteorologist Ryan Kittell said on Tuesday that” this was a largely beneficial rain.”
” I think we dodged a bullet, “he said”. It significantly improved the firefights and provides a welcome change from the fire weather.
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