An incredible incident happened in a shelter animal In the US, with 14 people working there to be transported to the hospital after the FBI used the incinerator of the installation to burn seized drugs.
Animal shelter workers and about 75 cats and dogs were removed from Yellowstone Valley in Billings, Montana, when the building filled smoke on Wednesday.
The incineration is usually used to incinerate euthanasia animals, but can also be used by the authorities to burn drugs.
The cats and the dogs They were transported elsewhere, while the animals were most exposed to tobacco are now under surveillance.
According to Management Assistant Kevin Ifland, the incident was caused when the smoke was fired in the wrong direction due to negative pressure, with the director of the shelter, Triniti Halverson, saying that he did not know that he would be burned.
Fourteen workers at Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter in Billings, Montana, were hospitalized after smoke from two pounds of meth seized by the FBI and incinerated filled the building. The shelter’s 75 animals were relocated. The facility remains closed for testing. (KFYR) pic.twitter.com/kHJvGVyL8R
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“I can say with confidence that, as a manager, I had no idea that they destroyed extremely dangerous drugs in our area,” she said in a statement and confirmed that both employees and animals were exposed to methamphetamine.
Before leaving the building, many workers wore masks and helped the animals go out.
Some employees were exposed to tobacco for more than an hour and began to feel unwell. All 14 were transferred to the emergency, where they stayed about three hours in a special oxygen chamber to cope with the effects of inhalation of so toxic toxic tobacco.
FBI spokesman Sandra Barker told CBS News that it is common for the service to use external facilities for the controlled catastrophe of confiscated drugs.
Specialized workshop has already started cleaning the building, but the process will last at least two weeks by one month.
The director of the shelter asks for the aid of citizens For food donations for dogs and cats, blankets and bottle.
“We are uprooted, lost and homeless. For many of us – workers, volunteers and contractors – Yvas is our safe space, “he said.