Ya, look at the quotes from the police on the 3 different audios that come out, and there's not a chance that's what they meant.
When the cop says "burn the mother ****er down", he's not talking about using gas to get him out of the building, it's clearly saying burn the house down with him in it.... Any other interpretation given the facts is ludicrous.
Then, "we are going ahead with the plan with the burners.... Like we talked about."
Response;"burners are deployed and we have fire",
A minute later, "we have fire in the front, he might come out the back."
Then they waited until the building was about to collapse before bringing in the fire trucks.
Ok, let's be honest here; in the circumstance, burning down the house in order to get the person to either surrender or die in the buildings, after he's already killed a bunch of people.
The lapd burned the house down, not sure how you could think "burn that Down" means something other than burn that down. But at least be honest about the scene...