FWIW, there's a lot of chaff out there WRT the MOVE fire. MOVE was a group of African separatists/supremacists and the police attempted isolation for days. My understanding based on accounts in the Philadelphia Inquirer and other sources when I got back to college (I was on summer break when the fire occurred) was that the police were receiving pressure to take more action. I don't know if that pressure was coming from the mayor's office (looked like the mayor wasn't doing anything), the nearby residents who found the situation was interfering with normal life and probably feared the situation continuing, or some combination thereof. The explosives were to blow a hole in the roof so they could get in, it wasn't an intent to blow up the residents or start the conflagration -- what they didn't know was that MOVE was storing gasoline up there (a LOT of gasoline).

In the case of CHAZ, I think the best thing the police could do is what they should have done in Waco -- seal off the perimeter and just let them wallow. Take no physical action, just don't let them out. Cut the phone and cable lines, get the phone companies to turn off the cell towers in the area, and just let them sit. If they're peaceful, nothing will happen and they'll get bored. The worst thing police could do is let themselves be pushed to take action.