NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Over 90,000 residents in a county east of Atlanta, the U.S. state of Georgia, were told to keep sheltering in place on Monday after a chemical plant fire sent a massive plume of dark smoke high into the sky, reported The Associated Press.
Air quality surveys done by the Environmental Protection Agency and the state Environmental Protection Division "revealed the harmful irritant chlorine" detected in the air from the fire at the BioLab plant in Conyers, the Rockdale County government said in a statement early Monday.
"For everyone sheltering in place, the best practice is to turn the air conditioning off and keep windows and doors shut," the statement said. ■