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 through, reducing homes and cars to rubble and charred metal.

CNN’s Erin Burnett talks to the owner of a 1970’s blue Volkswagen that somehow managed to survive the Palisades fire despite surrounding homes and cars being reduced to rubble.

Amid the devastating aftermath of the Los Angeles County wildfires, a glimmer of good news. A retro blue Volkswagen bus somehow survived the deadly fires as it sits seemingly intact surrounded by burned out homes.