Some residents in a city east of Atlanta were placed under an evacuation order on Sunday to avoid contact with smoke due to a fire at a chemical plant.
The fire ignited when a sprinkler head malfunctioned around 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.
Rockdale County Sheriff Eric Levett said in a video posted on social media Sunday that a fire broke out at around 4:30 a.m. and “was contained,” but that the fire later reignited. “We are doing a hard evacuation” in areas throughout Conyers, a suburb east of Atlanta, he told reporters….