Some residents in a city east of Atlanta were placed under an evacuation order on Sept. 29 to avoid contact with smoke from a fire at a chemical plant.
The fire ignited when a sprinkler head malfunctioned at about 5 a.m. at the BioLab plant in Conyers, Rockdale County, Fire Chief Marian McDaniel told reporters. The malfunction caused water to mix with a water-reactive chemical, producing a plume of chemicals. McDaniel said she wasn’t sure what chemicals were in the plume.
