CONYERS, Ga. — A chemical plume that’s been gassing off in Conyers since a fire at a BioLab facility in Sunday continues to do so Friday, nearly a week later.
The fire was put out Sunday, but a reaction, triggered by sprinkler system water pouring onto pool shock chlorination products at the BioLab facility in Conyers, has continued to produce the plume.
The Georgia Department of Public Health told 11Alive that a “few hundred” people have complained of symptoms associated with the plume — such as eye irritation and coughing — but that the very large majority of these cases have been mild, with “very few” people experiencing severe outcomes or being admitted to a hospital…