The image quickly became a "beacon of hope" for some in the wake of Los Angeles' deadly January 2025 wildfires.

A photo of the van, taken by an Associated Press photographer, circulated widely on television and online, giving people a ...

January 17, 2025 The retro Volkswagen bus once owned by Preston Martin an which he slept in for a year during college is ...

Conspiracy theorists claim blue objects that make it through infernos, like this Volkswagen Bus in California, are evidence ...

A retro Volkswagen van has inadvertently become a “beacon of hope” for Los Angeles area residents as they start to pick up ...

A Malibu resident is telling his story about how he captured a now-viral photo of a Volkswagen Bus that survived the deadly Palisades Fire. “Get out of the house, now! There’s a massive fireball ...

A surprising AP photograph of an undamaged Volkswagen van surrounded by destruction from a Los Angeles wildfire has ...

Of all the destruction from the LA fires, the story of a magic blue 1977 VW bus that survived the flames offered a small beacon of hope--a beacon so needed that the image taken by Associated Press ...

A RETRO blue VW van stands defiant after miraculously surviving the deadly Los Angeles wildfires. Stunned former owner Preston Martin, 24, assumed the 1977 Volkswagen Type 2 van had been consumed ...

Terrill captured an image that would go viral as a "beacon of hope" — an apparently unscathed, baby-blue, retro Volkswagen van parked on a street amongst the burnt rubble of a Malibu ...