Conyers, a city of roughly 17,000, has been evacuated and surrounding Rockdale County, with a population of nearly 100,000, ...

A shelter-in-place advisory was extended for a Georgia county on Monday after chlorine was detected in the air — a result of ...

Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security (GEMA) issued a shelter in place order for all of 93,000 residents of ...

For everyone sheltering in place, the best practice is to turn the air conditioning off and keep windows and doors shut,” a ...

Manufacturer KIK Consumer Products said it was responding to the incident at its facility, BioLab, in Conyers. No injuries ...

CONYERS, Ga. — Rockdale County has lifted the county-wide shelter-in-place order after a chemical fire broke out at the BioLab facility in Conyers early Sunday morning, forcing more than 17,000 ...

Gwinnett County officials held a press conference early Monday afternoon to discuss the chemical fire on Sunday at BioLab in ...

A day after a massive chemical fire sent a cloud of toxic chlorine gas into the atmosphere, more than 90,000 residents in ...

Authorities on Monday night ended a shelter-in-place order for more than 90,000 people east of Atlanta following a weekend ...

The last major incident occurred in 2020 when a similar situation forced Interstate 20 to close for six hours.

Commissioners emphasized the need to discuss internal safety measures and proactive steps to prevent future incidents.

The closure is “based on unpredictable path and wind direction” of the toxic chemicals still in the air, according to ...