A federal agency is investigating a Georgia chemical plant fire that sent a massive plume of smoke into the air this week, prompting a shelter-in-place advisory and evacuation zone east of Atlanta.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said in a statement that it is sending a team to the BioLab plant in Conyers to assess what it called a “major chemical fire.”
“We are sending investigators to the site to determine the cause of this dangerous incident and the safety gaps at the facility that allowed this huge fire to occur. Tens of thousands of people have been put potentially at risk by this catastrophe,” the agency’s head, Steve Owens, said in the statement on Monday….