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☛ ☛ NTERPRISEt h e l i v i n g s t o n E Thursday, June 24, 2021 •฀Livingston,฀Montana฀•฀Vol.฀115 No.฀132฀฀ $1.00 ‘We have a deal’ President Biden announces infrastructure agreement WASHINGTON (AP) — months of partisan rancor P r e s i d e n t J o e B i d e n that has consumed Washing- declared on Thursday that ton, yet Biden has insisted “we have a deal,” announc- that something could be ing a bipartisan agreement done despite skepticism on a $953 billion infrastruc- from many in his own party. ture plan that would achieve Led by Republican Portman his top legislative priority of Ohio and Democrat and validate his efforts to Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, reach across the political the group includes some of aisle. the more independent law- Biden made a surprise makers in the Senate, some appearance in front of the known for bucking their cameras with members of a parties. group of senators, Republi- “You know there are many cans and Democrats, after who say bipartisanship is an agreement was reached dead in Washington,” said at the White House. Details Sinema, “We can use bipar- of the deal were scarce to tisanship to solve these start, but the pared-down challenges.” plan, with $559 billion in And Sen. Susan Collins, new spending, has rare R-Maine, said, “It sends an bipartisan backing and important message to the could open the door to the world as well that America president’s more sweeping can function, can get things $4 trillion proposals later done.” on. The senators have strug- “This reminds me of the gled over how to pay for the days when we used to get an new spending but left for awful lot done up in the the White House with a Cutting United States Congress,” sense of confidence that said Biden, a former Dela- funding issues had been ware senator, putting his addressed. The senators hand on the shoulder of a from both parties stressed stoic-looking Republican that the deal will create jobs weekend Sen. Rob Portman. for the economy, a belief The president said not that clearly transcended the everyone got what they partisan interests and creat- ABOVE: Holly Jones rides Cr Tuff Lil wanted and that other White ed a framework for the deal. Sandy during the Crazy Mountain House priorities would be “We’re going to keep Cutting Weekend at the Heart K Ranch tackled separately in a con- working together--we’re not Arena on Wednesday. The competition gressional budget process finished,” Sen. Mitt Romney goes through Sunday. known as reconciliation. said. “But America works, “We’ve struck a deal,” the Senate works.” RIGHT: Cowboys line up between com- Biden then tweeted. “A For Biden, the deal was a petition during the Crazy Mountain group of senators – five welcome result. Cutting Weekend at the Heart K Ranch Democrats and five Repub- Though for far less than Arena on Wednesday. licans – has come together the approximately $2 tril- and forged an infrastruc- lion he originally sought, Enterprise photos by Lydia Ely ture agreement that will which may raise some ire on create millions of American jobs.” The deal was struck amid See Deal, Page 6 Many are feared dead after Florida beachfront condo collapses SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — A is heartbreaking because it wing of a 12-story beachfront doesn’t mean, to me, that we condo building collapsed are going to be as successful with a roar in a town outside as we wanted to be in finding Miami early Thursday, kill- people alive.” ing at least one person and Hours after the collapse, trapping residents in rubble searchers were trying to and twisted metal. Rescuers reach a trapped child whose pulled out dozens of survi- parents were believed to be vors and continued to look dead. In another case, rescu- for more. ers saved a mother and child, Nearly 100 people were but the woman’s leg had to be still unaccounted for at mid- amputated to remove her Photo by Danielle Babcox day, authorities said, raising from the rubble, Frank Rolla- Firefighters extinguish hay bales along Interstate 90 just fears that the death toll could son, director of Miami-Dade east of Livingston on Wednesday evening. climb sharply. But officials Emergency Management, did not know how many were told the Miami Herald. in the tower when it fell Video showed fire crews Hay bales catch fire around 1:30 a.m. removing a boy from the AP “The building is literally This aerial photo shows part of the 12-story oceanfront pancaked,” Surfside Mayor Champlain Towers South Condo that collapsed early Thurs- Charles Burkett said. “That See Collapse, Page 6 day in Surfside, Fla. on I-90; no injuries By Justin Post that the exact cause of the Enterprise Staff Writer fire isn’t immediately known. Enterprise is hit by ransomware attack No one was injured when a Crews closed one of the truck hauling round hay two westbound lanes on bales caught fire on Inter- Interstate 90 while working By Jason Bacaj fraud that aims to trick a state 90 east of Livingston the fire. Babcox said smoke Enterprise Staff Writer person into opening mali- Wednesday evening. from the burning hay bales cious links or files. Crews from Park County causing visibility issues was The Livingston Enterprise Among the compromised Rural Fire District #1 were one of the biggest obstacles was hit with a ransomware servers was one essential for called to the Springdale area, for firefighters working the attack earlier this month, as The Enterprise’s printing near the border of Park scene. the number of such attacks operations. The newspaper County and Sweet Grass While the fire was first to businesses and critical and contract printing work County, after 5 p.m. Wednes- reported in Sweet Grass infrastructure — from the completed by The Enterprise day when the fire was County, Babcox said his nation’s largest fuel pipeline get electronically trans- reported to dispatch. department is on an elevated to the world’s largest meat ferred onto metal plates. The vehicle, which was state of alert with the cur- processing company — con- Once the plates are pro- traveling to Wilsall, contin- rent hot, dry conditions in tinues to grow. cessed — a task akin to ued west into Park County the area. The attack on the newspa- developing camera film — and stopped around mile He said he’s happy his per was first noticed on Sat- they are attached to the marker 346, said Park Coun- department opted to respond urday, June 5, when Scott printing press and transfer ty Rural Fire District #1 to the area, as the fire ulti- Squillace, controller for Yel- ink onto physical paper. Chief Dann Babcox. mately ended up in Park lowstone Newsgroup, which The computer used to print Rural Fire crews put water County. owns The Enterprise, discov- Enterprise photo by Lydia Ely the digital design on metal on the fire to cool it down “It was just fortunate that ered that he couldn’t access The Enterprise building on the corner of Main and Geyser plates stopped working and help prevent it from everyone was there when certain servers within the streets. shortly after the ransomware spreading, Babcox said, add- they were there and no one company. took root in The Enterprise ing that a structure engine got hurt,” Babcox said. He worked with the compa- much in ransom in Bitcoin,” currency such as Bitcoin. computer servers. For hours, from Big Timber also He said fire crews needed ny’s information technology Squillace said. “They were On Monday, June 7, Squil- N e m e c w o r k e d o n t h e responded to the scene and to tear apart the round bales specialist, Ian Nemec, to kind enough to give us sourc- lace contacted the FBI offic- machine. As he worked, it helped put water on the to ensure the fire was fully begin unraveling the issue. es where we could buy Bit- es in Billings and Salt Lake was unclear whether the blaze. extinguished. A skid steer But it wasn’t until that Mon- coin,” he wryly noted. “They City once he learned there newspaper would be able to Babcox said the fire equip- from Whistler Towing in Liv- day that they realized the also offered to decrypt one was a ransom involved. He print or commercial printing ment from Big Timber ingston helped in that effort, servers were not infected of our files — a small file, an filed a report with the contracts fulfilled. played a key role in extin- he said. with a simple virus, but rath- inconsequential one — just to bureau’s Internet Crime On the design and layout guishing the fire. Babcox said the ranch er were being held captive prove that they could do it.” Complaint Center. In the side of the operation, the “It was a godsend,” he said. truck suffered some damage for ransom. Squillace Ransomware is a type of report, Squillace noted the software that makes the Babcox described the vehi- but appeared repairable. declined to say how much the malicious software that ransomware entered the transfer to the plates was cle involved in the fire as a Fire crews reopened both hackers demanded in ran- essentially holds a target newspaper’s computer sys- compromised by the attack, heavy-duty ranch truck out- lanes of the interstate and som. computer or computer sys- tem when an employee as were a large number of fitted with a bed for hauling cleared the scene at about “(The hackers) said they’d tem hostage by encrypting clicked on a link in a phish- hay bales.

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