What we know about the Conyers BioLab fire | Sunday 6p update

[@Lazy_Fish_Keeper]

Confused as to why water was used to fight a fire....caused by a water reactive chemical.

[@MommaLousKitchen]

To dilute it probably. Keep in from dispersing as a powder. That's more dangerous probably

[@Robert08010]

They may have had hundreds of different chemicals on site. And the sprinkler system was probably activated automatically due to the fire. Nobody said the firefighters went in with water hoses.

[@Lazy_Fish_Keeper]

@@Robert08010 there was a longer coverage where yes, they did acknowledge the difficulties of fighting a fire due to a water reaction with "unknown chemicals on sight"....with water. That they had gotten the fire out, and as they were removing "containers of the source material" the fire re-ignited. Which is something that happens with lithium ion batteries (electric cars) and the vehicle has to be allowed to burn because there's no safe way to put out the fire without making it burn hotter (meaning this probably isn't a lithium fire). Magnesium also ignites upon contact with water.... several other minerals are also highly unstable in the presence of H2O

[@jasonlawrence4617]

yea. Sounds like the dropped cigarette fires in russia. RUssia is actively in contact with people in the us to statr burning down our defense industry. So this is alarming to say the least...easpecially when we use common sense and it doesn't appear to be used in this situation.

[@siennavanlife9502]

I live in Conyers. I was told that in the past they've brought the firetrucks up from Atlanta Hartsfield airport that use the foam but for whatever reason the CFD used water which made things worse not better. Idk, this is heresay but that's what I've been told.

[@laughingdog747]

CDC, EPA, OSHA and NIH all said Ground Zero was safe ......how did that work out

[@siennavanlife9502]

This happened like this 20 years ago, literally 2004 and people downwind had breathing problems. All that got swept under the rug. Of course that was before social media is what it is today; gonna be a lot easier to know and a lot harder for them to hide this time around.

[@laughingdog747]

@@siennavanlife9502 yikes

[@paulrickman7549]

​East Palestine is under the same rug.

[@danlowe8684]

That 0:37 Super Lawyer billboard ad with huge plume of smoke behind it is perfect.

[@LisaBowers]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that! 😄

[@GIJOE-24]

😂

[@charlespaluha1247]

There's a problem here. This is the third time this has happened. At the same facility. Something needs to be investigated and figure out what's going on here

[@laughingdog747]

@charlespaluha1247 Must be Government then. No one in private sector survives 1 let alone 3 catastrophic failures

[@Steven-s4k]

They just won't tell us what chemicals are involved. IT must be really bad. Worse than polyvinylcloride in palisine.

[@AndiMiller-qu2jg]

Yikes

[@RizzleyBearRobins]

Have they ever said there was a health hazard? Ever? Have the agencies ever said there was a danger? Any pipeline, train crash, fire, explosion, leak?

[@davidthompson6636]

It is not smoke. It is a gas cloud

[@melanielynne0414]

What chemical? You know?

[@intercommradio7372]

@@melanielynne0414 chlorine

[@HAD97]

Looks like smoke to me.

[@carolinek2526]

Same thing happened on a smaller scale right after hurricane Laura in 2020. Same chemicals are involved. The report is available online from the CSB. “trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA)… When a TCCA-based formulation instead comes in contact with or is wetted/moistened by a small amount of water and does not dissolve, it can experience a chemical reaction, generating heat and causing the decomposition of the chemical, which in turn produces toxic chlorine gas and can produce explosive nitrogen trichloride.” Chlorine gas produces hydrochloric acid in the presence of water. Be safe Georgia.

[@Kamalaisacommie69420]

@@melanielynne0414it’s a 1000000% a chemical cloud I live a mile from it. Infact cops are reporting it’s so bad there teeth hurt

[@THEcucufate]

Who the heck is doing stuff ON A SUNDAY at a "biolab" seriously?? WTF. Which way are the winds blowing? That would be nice to know.

[@DistrustHumanz]

Wind blowing northeast

[@reaperthemad8731]

It's not a biolab like you might be thinking. That's the name of the company. They make pool/spa chemicals and testing kits.

[@EmazingGuitar]

People work on Sundays, it may be a holy day for you but time is money.

[@richardkalbfeld]

Good point. On a Sunday?

[@blue_moon6490]

It’s a plant call BioLab.

[@jamesbrooks5442]

very poor reporting should have shone what type chemicals and hazards if breathed and wind directions

[@terrywade3696]

For those of us who live across the country, it would’ve been nice to know where Rockdale County and Conyers are! I thought reporters were supposed to report the news to everyone.

[@jizzyb3216]

​​@@terrywade3696Conyers is 20 miles east of Atlanta. This is not the first time this has happened it happened 20 years ago it was a chlorine plant. I remember being we weren't allowed to leave our homes for 3 days

[@ericelvis730]

Thought bio labs wjere only in ukraine

[@aaronroberts4264]

Staying home and closing the windows you've got to be stupid

[@esty6374]

It’s like wearing a mask to keep Covid out

[@TJ-qb1ei]

America is fallen apart because of laziness it’s nothing but laziness because no one does the right thing anymore

[@dailyvictory6656]

They have failed multiple inspections. Yet no one is mentioning it

[@DrSammyMunchkin]

Link please

[@mikepalmer1971]

How do you know?

[@Allison-AQ]

@@mikepalmer1971 this is about the 4th time the biolab has done this

[@PrincessZXN6]

After Trump reversed so many policies, labs and factories have less consequences for failed inspections.

[@ysf-psfx]

@@DrSammyMunchkin www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=897504.015

[@michaelrose9118]

Anyone smart enough to ask just how much of that cloud is or could be Mustard Gas? The chemicals used. Is spa and pool maintenance... if mixed with bleach. .....Humm. makes a smart person want to ask some specific questions about what chemicals are present at that location!!!!?

[@trashpanda3751]

Thank you!! This highly suspicious when Appalachia is totally annihilated, including infrastructure gone! Another hurricane incoming the northern Gulf, too! A real walking dead I'm afraid! 💔

[@briangman3]

Higher exposures to sodium bromide can cause a build-up of fluid in the lungs, which is a medical emergency d

[@TaDaEnt.]

They manufacture pool chemicals the ones with the black death labels. This happens all the time at Bio-Lab.

[@AngelMoon4U]

Similar thing in deer park texas recently....pool chemicals also involved

[@davidh1525]

You might want to run.

[@j316finewoodworking6]

Like looks like a certain train derailment in OH. Wonder what chemicals these are?

[@MariaCarmen-wb7gv]

Would it affect life anywhere the wind blows the cloud of chemicals?

[@showmestatefinest5412]

They're not evacuating for nothing

[@block9390]

I am just glad that women seem to be in charge here, I feel much safer!

[@thetruthandnothingbutthetr6484]

Zombie time

[@memestar2536]

😂😂😂

[@cryptoOFkingz]

Haha, I came here to find this comment. Thanks for not failing me.

[@nerobaal6655]

Whimmy wham wham wazzle

[@HyperPunkShortie]

THIS CITY SHOULD BE HELD LIABLE FOR THIS 💯💯💯💯. THIS COULD KILL PEOPLE AND THEY ACT LIKE ITS NOTHING

[@stanhutchins4365]

This isn’t an accident, seriously.

[@kittyxoxo9423]

Who did it and why? I need to know lol

[@Odetojoyous]

Any reason we cant know the exact chemical? The plumes will go where the wind does.

[@steverey8362]

Easy because they don't want people to know the extent of the hazard. Just a cursory search of the company home page, products and ingredients would draw attention to one of the chemicals that was banned in the EU. Nonylphenol ethoxylate phosphate

[@lulu_TheWitchBoy]

I heard they don’t know the exact chemicals yet, and they’re trying to find out

[@steverey8362]

@@lulu_TheWitchBoy Just go to their homepage and look for yourself, they use Nonylphenol ethoxylate phosphate. Why do people argue a point without just following the source to verify before talking out their rear end.

[@jaysonpida5379]

@@lulu_TheWitchBoy UNACCEPTABLE !!! It is a major chemical site >the local emergency response departments (AND THE FRIGGIN ER ROOMS) should already have current data about the chemicals at that site. They're lying...they know.

[@truthhurts9394]

I’m thinking it’s Chlorine…biolab makes swimming pool chemicals.

[@AmoristJohnson]

Close the whole city

[@Bars3409]

Who owns this place ...ceo

[@HAD97]

Probably some body in Lower Slobovia.

[@stringlarson1247]

He's still down near the Titanic.

[@BarbStewart-x8h]

Water reactive chemical…do your job and find out EXACTLY what the chemical is!!!

[@briangman3]

Exposure to sodium dichloro-s-triazinetrione can cause pulmonary edema, which can develop several hours after exposure.

[@mccainjay]

Which way is the wind currently blowing?

[@_mylastname]

Northeast typically

[@HAD97]

At 8:17pm, no wind. They have I-20 shut down. Conyers Ga 18,000. 17,000 have been evacuated/local news.

[@servanthood3332]

@@_mylastname what does that mean, "typically"? Are you saying likely? We need certainty.

[@Icon-x8g]

god will save the day cause when has he ever failed us

[@MommaLousKitchen]

Happened 4 years ago in the same town?

[@grandmashootz1459]

I worked near there when in 2004 there was a fire. It was spooky then, I can't imagine it today. It is spewing chemicals in the air.

[@jyoung2393]

Yep, I was there in 04, breathing burned no matter where you were

[@briangman3]

contains sodium dichloro-s-triazinetrione (82.5%) and sodium bromide (14.7%).

[@ysf-psfx]

possibly phosgene and hydrogen chloride but concentrations are unknown

[@TaDaEnt.]

This about the fifth time this has happened. It happened when i first moved to Conyers in 2019-2020. I moved back to Cobb 2 years later.. It will smell like burnt bleach for weeks 🙄

[@endtables]

Years back General Electric caught fire In Louisville Kentucky. Massive fire and burned plastic debris floated down from the sky. The smell was awful.

[@JohnnyUtahFBI]

Guys, get ready….

[@jp_4_president420]

For what

[@amazingcolonelangus4535]

It's chlorine gas (Pool and Spa chemicals)???

[@francom6230]

Or Cloramine fumes.. still bad

[@_mylastname]

Ok, so Biolab is the name of the place(owned by KIK consumer products) they have pool chems in that company. Chlorine and other bad chems.. stay safe everyone

[@mikepalmer1971]

That’s not chlorine gas genius. Chlorine is not black and grey.

[@HAD97]

@@_mylastname Bio Lab manufactures pool chemicals, water testing kits and some other stuff. There's a big chlorine gas cloud hanging around Conyers with currently no wind so they shut down the adjacent Interstate I-20 because they don't know what the hell going to happen. Conyers Ga 18,000 folks and 17,000 have been evacuated / local news.

[@_mylastname]

@@mikepalmer1971 and brown

[@mb19se]

Maybe just shouldn't interfere with our little hands in the affairs of other countries and then there will be peace at home?

[@tamaram6924]

Similar just happened in Ohio smh what is going on… a valve opened somehow and then closed on its own is what they reported in Ohio

[@goodday23456]

It would help to know where Rockdale County is located. State? Country?

[@user-xu7wy3ur9q-Lynn]

Rockdale County, Georgia, 34 miles east of Atlanta, Georgia.

[@siennavanlife9502]

Turdistan

[@Reggie-w6d]

Everyone in Atlanta area is Doomed

[@briangman3]

Don’t breath that in your dead in hours

[@J-B-Free]

Name of the Company and who is the CEO please?

[@gravefrightn5720]

Jamarcus Jones. Been with the company 22 years. See don't listen to people do your own research. I just made that up. Fake news travels quick.

[@ysf-psfx]

BioLab, John Viner, company owned by Chemtura Corporation

[@M3ROFRMDATR3Y]

It’s made it down to Covington ga too jus got the alert to close windows doors turn off ac stay inside

[@Fox_406]

Close windows? Ya like that’ll help much other than short term. More like get your family to safety just in case cause it’s always way worse than they say

[@thisiswhywehomeschool8293]

Where did this happen?

[@TheDystopiaInside]

Looks like East Palestine -- lol anybody still remember that? They're not telling us a lot -- but don't worry, corporations are your friend.

[@M3ROFRMDATR3Y]

I’m 20 mins away frm there and my eyes started burning a while ago lol

[@HAD97]

Mine started burning right after I head about it! Monastery.

[@AnthonYRivera_]

Fake News. Tell the real Chemicals.

[@Theorginsofmemes34]

Close the place down this is the 3rd time it has happened

[@ifcatshadthumbs...664]

How's a chemical plant and biolab the same thing? A water activated chemical...like white phosphorous?

[@larimardragon]

That plant produces industrial grade chlorine for pools. So the smoke is chlorine fumes. Seems safe and contained right? Last time it killed thousands of trees and plants wherever the smoke touched.

[@_mylastname]

What's causing the BROWN smoke? That plume will travel northeast regardless and people Will be affected.

[@HAD97]

No wind in Conyers currently.

[@M3ROFRMDATR3Y]

@@HAD97that’s a lie it’s already spreaded down to Covington ga

[@M3ROFRMDATR3Y]

@@HAD97just got a health risk warning saying to stay inside close windows turn ac off

[@HAD97]

@@M3ROFRMDATR3Y I'm going by the local weather on the wind. I got that alert also. I heard 17,000 folks evacuated and I-20 closed?? Not certified info.

[@thegorn68]

BioLab had a Conyers plant burn to the ground 20 years ago (5-25-04). Crazy!

[@carlosbarahona8609]

Water reactive Chemical? Bolony. How did that happen? I got bronchitis.

[@Kamalaisacommie69420]

I have way better footage lol

[@Kamalaisacommie69420]

If y’all wanna see it hmu

[@Janet-b7i]

Sabotaged?

[@debibrand]

Good thing we're not, like at war, and have foes looking to deliver retaliatory strikes to us ... ' cuz, if we were ... like, it ‘ kinda' make ya' wonda' ...

[@pamelamelton]

IS IT ME. I WAS GETTING A WEIRD VIBE. FROM THE LADIES THAT SPOKE AND THE POLICE HAD ODD LOOKZ. I HOPE I WIN SONE MONEY, SO I CAN STAY AWAY. AWAY. AWAY AWAY. FROM ERRRRRRRRRRRR' BODY. IM SICK OF PEOPLE.

[@nildameers3772]

Right in time for elections

[@kittyxoxo9423]

Who does this benefit?

[@ThunderHOWL16]

@@kittyxoxo9423no one, conspiracy theorists will grasp at anything they can

[@thedoctor4952]

NEED MORE BRAINS!!

[@Nonameconservative]

Biolab center?

[@_mylastname]

What chemicals please?!

[@andrewjohnson4021]

It looks like God got a hold of them. And they're all in trouble. Good luck you're all going to need it.

[@Tcb2024-wz9up]

(*inhales deeply*) I can smell the lawsuits alll the way from 3 states over!

[@carnaud]

The pool and spa market is taking a big hit….Id bank on insurance fraud 😂

[@raymondjackson6006]

Are they doing any bio weapons there? Are they connected to the federal govt. if so we will only get lies.

[@ChristopherShabazzx]

Damn his grill fucked up .😂

[@Hurpdurpdipidydoo]

That women in charge should make everyone feel much safer 😂

[@Trugamr24]

Great ad for a lawyer on the electronic sign when all those people breathe in those toxins

[@vincentcontreras1418]

Climate change

[@djmurphy6033]

This is how.the zombie apocalypse starts people...my god.has no one seen the walking dead

[@cryptoOFkingz]

This is my favorite comment. I was thinking the same thing

[@terfin8400]

Bio lad ??? Where is fauci

[@richardkalbfeld]

He's safe in Biden's basement.

[@Pleasemison]

Dont forget brunswick burn

[@StalkerIncCC]

Zombie apocalypse 😂😂

[@tvan4948]

It's all bulshit

[@winsomeclarke387]

Nothing so far

[@EdgarSoto-bd4cx]

That's where I live 😢

[@nicknick2350]

💥 😳🧑‍🚒🚨🚔🙈🙊🙉🔥💨

[@Bandobenz18]

Sleeper cells

[@CaesarNTG]

Calcium

[@gloriacroft4247]

Georgia

[@gloriacroft4247]

Georgia

[@jjrne6]

What state is this? Closest city??

[@user-xu7wy3ur9q-Lynn]

Georgia, Conyers is the city in Rockdale County.

[@JoeHeffner]

WHAT STATE IS IT IN?

[@user-xu7wy3ur9q-Lynn]

Georgia!

[@danpp6175]

You must need to blame this current Administration how is it that nobody was Hazmat certified to deal with this how is it that the ones that are Hazmat certified know how to deal with things like this d e i at its finest

[@richardkalbfeld]

This wasn't the first time this happened under Bide, Harris. suspicious, oh yeah

[@Wildraiinbow]

I heard it's a swimming pool company

[@Wildraiinbow]

Something smells fishy about this.

[@JetJ321]

They said the county name and the lab name, does anyone know the state?

[@Private-wj4nd]

Georgia

[@Carlos-en1ws]

Conyers, Ga

[@JetJ321]

​@@Private-wj4nd Thank you!

[@Co4532]

Bio facility 😮 well well hmm

[@Mike-ph5rn]

What f**king STATE?

[@DistrustHumanz]

Georgia

[@ragingrevenge1]

Georgia

[@georgewhittaker9105]

California. Another in Atlanta. And a rail car train leak three days ago 😮

[@Mike-ph5rn]

@@DistrustHumanz Thank You. It bugs me when they do that. ☮️

[@WSseaghost110]

Hey look over here!!!! COM’ON

[@huffwayno]

Why would you have water reactive agents protected by water sprinklers. Seems they should be stored in a spaces w chemical fire suppression.

[@bshwin]

It’s a red state with no regulations

[@t.k159]

Wrong. It’s a blue state as of the 2020 election. Says Biden beat Trump by 12,000 votes in Georgia. The Washington Post says it’s no longer red posted in 2022.

[@dailyvictory6656]

This is ehat the environment needs according to trump and all his supporters.

[@Surge308]

That’s friggin ridiculous. Who the hell goes out and says, “oh gee, I really wish some toxic smoke cloud would spread over my city?”

[@debbiblakeslee]

What are you even talking about

[@Fox_406]

Your side is the ones committing all the crimes trying anything to stay in power. Who burned down the country for months, who attacks people for differences in beliefs? YOU GUYS ☝️

[@Fox_406]

Who tries to politically prosecute their opponents over and over and over again? Once again, YOU GUYS

[@Fox_406]

Who tries to assassinate people they don’t like? You guys

[@ysf-psfx]

BioLab, owned by KIK Consumer Products out of Lawrenceville, GA, at 1725 N Brown Rd, Lawrenceville, GA 30043. CEO is Michael Sload.

[@ysf-psfx]

Also because there is NO GOOD INFO out there here's the EPA report from the fire in 2004 www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014-03/documents/10115894.PDF

[@Vikezupa]

When bean counters don’t listen to the technical folks and engineers