Animal shelter still in flux after drug incineration led to staff evacuation

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The Daily Montanan reports that although the The Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter in Billings, MT., has been remediated following a state plan to deal with a drug incineration that went wrong, shelter staff aren’t working out of the facility and its long-term location is in flux. Fourteen staff members were taken to hospital after the FBI used an incinerator at the facility to burn two pounds of seized methamphetamine. Staff and some 75 cats and dogs were evacuated when the building filled with smoke. The incinerator is usually used by animal control officers to dispose of euthanized animals, but local authorities said it can also be used by law enforcement to burn seized narcotics.