The Station Fire in 2009 was extremely close to burning down my family's house. I will never forget the first time I saw the fire either.
I was driving up a really steep hill towards my house in nighttime, and I was blasting Shores in Flames by Bathory. Just as I reached the top of the hill and saw the entire horizon covered in bright flames (which looked oddly pretty in the pitch black night), the song reached the 2:50 mark, which is when the guitars come blasting in after an extremely long chanting intro. I can't remember a song synching up so perfectly to a moment in life like that, absolutely mesmerizing.