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. Rating: True (About ...

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 ...

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) ...

In the background was the bus, still blue and white and not at all damaged. “I freaked out,” she said. “I was in the bathroom, and I screamed.” She called Martin, who also freaked out.

A VW van sits among burned out homes, Jan. 9, 2025, in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) This photo provided by Macy DiCenso shows Megan Krystle Weinraub as she stands with her dog Bodi in ...

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.