FBI Tried To Burn Pounds Of Meth At Animal Shelter, Sends 14 Staff To Hospital

Fourteen workers at Montana’s Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter were hospitalized Wednesday after FBI agents burned two pounds of seized methamphetamine using the facility’s incinerator in Billings. Staff and 75 cats and dogs evacuated when smoke filled the building due to negative pressure pushing fumes in the wrong direction. All 14 employees spent three hours in hyperbaric oxygen chambers treating smoke inhalation after some were exposed for over an hour. An FBI spokesperson confirmed the agency routinely uses outside facilities for controlled drug burns. Building decontamination will take two weeks to a month. (Story URL)

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