A photo authentically shows a bright baby-blue, retro Volkswagen van parked on a street that survived the Pacific Palisades Wildfire unscathed in Los Angeles in early 2025.

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 ...

The blue-and-white VW Bus, which the owner had named "Azul," will get the same first-class treatment. The Magic Bus may have survived the fire, but it was surrounded by homes going up in flames ...

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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) ...

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 Palisades 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 ...

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 Volkswagen van sits on a road near the burned-down homes of Malibu after the Palisades Fire on Jan. 9, 2025. AP “There is magic in that van,” Martin, 24, said Tuesday in an interview with AP.

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 ...