BILLINGS — The Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter remains closed indefinitely after a federal drug incineration operation went wrong, leaving staff with lingering health effects and the community scrambling to care for stray animals.

Watch the video here: Clean-up after meth smoke released into animal shelter

The incident occurred when the FBI was burning methamphetamine at the facility's incinerator and the ventilation system malfunctioned, sending 14 employees to the hospital for treatment.

The employees were treated in hyperbaric oxygen chambers, of which the hospital has only four. Workers decided to pair up and sit two per chamber, and spent three hours each in treatment.

Triniti Halverson and Riley Bailey, Yellowstone Valley Animal Services employees

"People are frustrated, p

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