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.

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.