If you look at the picture of the burnt camera, the lens hood is totalled, and it smeared melted plastic all over the place – you can see it melting shut in the

If you look at the picture of the burnt camera, the lens hood is totalled, and it smeared melted plastic all over the place – you can see it melting shut in the video – but both the lens and the camera body seem more or less intact, and I suspect the innards of the camera are relatively undamaged. It's also worth noting that what damaged the camera was a relatively low-temperature grass fire, not the blazing hot inferno of rocket fuel. All in all, after the initial shock of "the card survived _what_!?" it's actually not _that_ surprising that they managed to salvage it.