This is a PBS documentary on the Centralia mine fire from 1982.....

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow4UERykRbg?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=400&h=225]

This is a PBS documentary on the Centralia mine fire from 1982.. and these images, the smoke and houses and end of times feel, is exactly what I remember from my very early youth.. 

Truly nostalgia 101 with this..