In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled MORE EVIDENCE - 2 Miles from Lahaina Fire A Melted Car Surrounded by Gravel! D.E.W. or What? (IMAGES from video and video links), chuck allen wrote: “ The video, which was originally posted to TikTok, initially shows a short clip of what appears to be molten metal (identified as aluminium in the voiceover) spilling out from a burnt-out car in Maui.
It then cuts to a speaker, who claims that the aluminium in the wheels “needs a minimum of 660 Celsius for it to melt” and that there is “not a fire that could create that kind of heat”.
This is not true. The average temperature of a forest fire specifically is around 800°C with extremes of up to 1,200°C—far higher than the melting point of pure aluminium (approximately 660°C).
Furthermore, the metal part of the wheel is often made of aluminium alloy, meaning the aluminium is mixed with other metals (though they can also be made of steel or pure aluminium). This can reduce the melting point, though the melting point of steel is much higher than aluminium.”
This was a grass fire. There isn't enough fuel in a grass fire to burn hot enough and long enough.
Forest fires - yes. But in the Paradise fire (2018) images at the bottom only the houses burned to dust, including porcelain toilets, but the trees were still green. The car in the Paradise pics melted while the telephone pole and some trees were relatively untouched.
It was a car fire started by grass. Use logic. Car fires are hot hot hot and glass breaks or melts and so will aluminum.