RELATED: BioLab fire: What to know about chlorine Officials also announced that the shelter-in-place for all of Rockdale County has been extended indefinitely. Approximately 17,000 residents were ...
Chlorine levels around the BioLab factor that burned down over the weekend continue to be at elevated levels as crews work to clear the chemicals causing a massive plume in that area.
BioLab, the chemical company and owner of a Conyers factory that caught fire and triggered evacuation and shelter in place orders, has had a series of fires and chemical releases at its facilities ...
After an inferno engulfed a BioLab industrial building, it shrouded neighborhoods in chemical smoke for days. Thousands of ...
Rockdale County commissioners launched a federal class-action lawsuit against BioLab and its parent company, KIK Consumer ...
"BioLab has had at least four instances of negligence ... in our facility come into contact with water, they slowly release chlorine – as they are intended to do when sanitizing a swimming ...
Residents east of Atlanta received new warnings to seek shelter as winds could blow a lingering chemical cloud over their ...
Chlorine has been involved in both accidental and intentional releases, making it dangerous if inhaled in large amounts. It was even used as a chemical weapon in World War I. RELATED: BioLab fire ...
testified alongside business owners and leaders about the BioLab chemical fire in Conyers, about 25 miles outside Atlanta, which spewed clouds of hazardous chlorine gas and smoke throughout the area.
County officials said chlorine, chloramine, and chlorine compounds were released into the air from the fire. In the letter to the EPA, Johnson, along with U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock ...
Exposure to chlorine can cause burning of the eyes ... The county said streams downstream from the BioLab facility don’t feed into the area’s drinking water source. BioLab said it has taken ...