News A retro blue VW van miraculously survives deadly Los Angeles fire ... A VW van sits among burned out homes, Jan. 9, 2025, in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) ...

Retro blue VW van miraculously survives deadly LA fire: ‘It makes no sense' Two days before the Palisades fire erupted, Preston Martin parked the 1977 Volkswagen Type 2 on a flat spot up the ...

Retro blue VW van miraculously survives deadly LA fire: ‘It makes no sense' Two days before the Palisades fire erupted, Preston Martin parked the 1977 Volkswagen Type 2 on a flat spot up the ...

A blue Volkswagen van sits intact on a street amid homes destroyed by the Palisades Fire in Malibu, California, on January 15, 2025. (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images) ...

Martin makes carbon fiber surfboards under Starlite. On Jan. 5 the friends drove to go surfing with the van, which Weinraub calls Azul — Spanish for “blue.” ...

Retro blue VW van miraculously survives deadly LA fire: ‘It makes no sense' Two days before the Palisades fire erupted, Preston Martin parked the 1977 Volkswagen Type 2 on a flat spot up the ...

Preston Martin figured the retro blue Volkswagen van he slept in for a year during college was a goner, given that he parked it in a Malibu neighborhood just before the Palisades fire ripped throug… ...