Police stumbled onto a methamphetamine lab while checking out a homeless camp in Norton, Massachusetts, on Monday.
Norton police said detectives were checking out a homeless area in the woods near the Extended Stay America hotel on South Washington Street when they came upon what they described as a "hazmat situation" with a makeshift meth lab.
"Fire officials conducted tests and determined it to be harmful," Norton police said on Facebook.
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A state hazmat team was called in to clean up the scene.
No further information was immediately available.