A chemical cloud moving around Atlanta's suburbs prompts a new shelter-in-place alert

A chemical cloud from a chlorine factory fire in Conyers was still billowing on Tuesday, Oct. 1 still rose from a chemical plant in Conyers — two days after a fire there. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

This story was updated at 5:21 p.m.

Residents east of Atlanta were again warned Tuesday to take shelter where they are if shifting winds push the still-billowing chemical cloud from a chlorine factory fire over their neighborhood.

A shelter-in-place order had just ended Monday evening for Rockdale County, where the chemical fire sent a huge plume of orange and black smoke into the Georgia sky on Sunday. People complained about a strong chemical smell and haze for many miles around the BioLab plant in Conyers, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of downtown Atlanta.