Our SOP on fires involving meth labs or crack production is to protect the houses on either side of the fire and let the bloody thing burn. The one exception is if someone is inside. Then we do what we have to to get the person(s) out and exit the structure ASAP. Too much bad shit in that kind of place, and we are not equipped with hazmat suits. As to the people 'taking the law into their own hands': that's what happens when the friggin' courts tie the hands of the RCs.