[grey_whiskers]

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).

Except that this appeared to have been grassland, not forest.

[chuck allen]

The car itself burns at 1500 degrees once ignited, which melts aluminum. Doesn’t matter what started it, grass or cigarette butt.