Andy Lodi in Altadena

[TJ Hopland]

As more and more photos are coming out you can sure tell the differences in the materials cars are made out of.  Vast majority of the newer stuff you can't really tell what they were since in many cases steel is all that really survived and there is less and less steel the newer they get.  Some its really interesting to see what is actually steel, not always where its expected.    Wheels and engines are also interesting, you can tell where the aluminum was there too. Seen some photos were there is basically a crank shaft sitting in a pile of dust.

It sort of appears like cars are being handled differently than the rest of the clean up.  Ones that were not completely burnt up you could see it making sense that they would be handled like cars needing to separate materials and hazards but some you would think the fire pretty much separated things so they would just pick the big chunks out with other remaining metal stuff?

I wonder if another way people are getting screwed by insurance (or people are trying to screw their insurance) is when there isn't really a vin number left to identify a pile of rubble as a specific car?   With the volume they have to deal with in that area I can't imagine in a vast majority of cases they are going to get the whole CSI lab team on the job.   In the olden days you would think the would have just looked a the rubble in the general area that used to be the garage and say yep that must have been the car you said was parked there and pay the claim but we know that isn't how they operate these days.  But I'm sure like everything else these days there are also the scum bags that didn't have anything anywhere near there filing fake claims and likely getting paid easier and faster than the legit ones.