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.

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.

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

Conyers were displaced or under a shelter in place order yesterday after a fire at the nearby BioLab chemical plant forced evacuations. It's the third fire at the plant in the past seven years. ( AJC) The National Weather Service's Greenville-Spartanburg office expressed condolences and solidarity with their communities after Helene caused unprecedented damage to east Georgia and the Carolinas.