Meryl Streep had to take matters into her own hands when evacuating from the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this month, according to her nephew.

Meryl Streep's nephew shared details of his famous aunt's nail-biting escape from the devastating Los Angeles fires

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

The extremely hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the destructive LA fires were likely due to global heating, a new weather attribution study found. Hotter temperatures will further amplify wildfire damage.

Climate change was a major factor behind the hot, dry weather that gave rise to the devastating LA fires, a scientific study has confirmed. It made those weather conditions about 35% more likely, according to World Weather Attribution - globally recognised for their studies linking extreme weather to climate change.

A World Weather Attribution study by 32 international wildfire scientists has confirmed that human-caused climate change worsened the ferocious wildfires that devastated parts of Los Angeles in recent weeks.