Rockdale County is asking residents once again to shelter-in-place due to a plume banking down in the county. The new alert comes hours after the county had lifted a previous shelter-in-place order for a fire that broke out at the Biolab chemical plant on Sunday.

People in the northern part of Rockdale County were ordered to evacuate and others were told to shelter in place with windows and doors closed.

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — People in multiple counties are now reporting a chlorine smell and smoke spreading after a chemical plant fire in Rockdale County. A fire broke out Sunday morning at the Biolab facility on Old Covington Highway. Rockdale County remains under a shelter-in-place order.

A shelter-in-place advisory was in place for more than 90,000 people in Rockdale County following a fire at a chemical plant.

Air quality surveys conducted by state and federal agencies “revealed the harmful irritant chlorine” emitting from the facility.

Officials say investigators have been monitoring for chlorine and hydrochloric acid in Rockdale County and beyond.

A chemical plant fire led to a massive plume of smoke and chemical contamination, leading officials to ask 17,000 people to evacuate.

More than 90,000 residents in a county east of Atlanta have been told to keep sheltering in place a day after a chemical plant fire sent a massive plume of dark smoke high into the sky that could been

Some residents east of Atlanta were evacuated and others told to shelter in place after a fire at a chemical plant

A fire at Biolab, a chemical plant in Conyers, is causing the evacuation of people who live nearby as well as a number of road closures.