Meryl Streep took the matter in his own hands, literally, when forest fires were dragged throughout Los Angeles County earlier this month.
According to the nephew Abe Streep, the Oscar -winning actor went into action after a fallen tree blocked his entrance path while trying to evacuate his house the day after fires broke out in the region. In his heartbreaking story of historical fires in Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Hollywood that was published on Tuesday in New York magazine, Streep wrote that his aunt, 75, borrowed the wire cutters of a neighbor and “cut a hole the size of a car in the fence. ” shared.
The star of “Devil Wears Prada”, “determined to leave”, then led to the courtyard of his neighbor to escape, his nephew recalled.
Meryl Streep was one of the few residents of the area whose experiences with fires, which have charged 29 lives and destroyed more than 15,000 structures, were told in the history of New York. The youngest Streep also spoke with a resident of West Altadena for a long time, a native of Palisades and school teacher, actor Haley Joel Osment and the “only murders in the building” of his aunt, Martin Short, among others.
Short, who knew “immediately” in the first years of his career that he would live in Pacific Palisades and bought there in 1984, told Abe Streep that “he will definitely stay in my house”, despite the fact that one of his children lost A house. “The sixth sense” and “Blink twice,” Star Osment said that he and his parents lost their homes in Eaton's fire.
In one of the most destructive fire storms to reach the Los Angeles County in recent memory, at least 130,000 Angelians fled for security, with celebrities among which they staggered for devastation.
Until Tuesday morning, the fires of Palisades, Eaton and Hughes in Los Angeles County were 95%, 99%and 98%, respectively, according to the Department of Forest and Fundamental Protection of California. The containment of the border 2 fire in San Diego County was 74%. There are no burned houses in the Hollywood sunset fire, which was completely contained on January 9.
The storm of the rain in recent days brought very necessary moisture to the south of California and the welcome relief to the angels tired of the fire. Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist at the National Meteorological Service in Oxnard, said Tuesday that although the amount of rain was not enough to prevent the fire season from extending until February, “this was a largely beneficial rain.”
“I think we skirt a bullet,” he said. “He helped with the shootings and definitely gives us a rest of the fire climate.”
The Times staff writer, Grace Toohey, contributed to this report.
