All Rockdale County residents have been ordered to shelter in place after a chemical fire broke out at the Biolab facility on Old Covington Highway.

A shelter-in-place order remained in effect Monday in parts of greater Atlanta after a chemical fire at a pool cleaning facility shot plumes of black smoke into the air, forced evacuations and closed roads,

A fire broke out Sunday morning at the Biolab facility on Old Covington Highway. Rockdale County remains under a shelter-in-place order. The fire is out. A thick plume of smoke can still be seen over 24 hours later, but Rockdale County fire officials say the plume is reducing.

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.