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LISTEN: Recent approved testing methods were unable to detect some of the most dangerous byproducts of the chemicals stored at BioLab, leaving nearby businesses and residents without clear answers about what they were exposed to. GPB’s Pamela Kirkland has more.
Nearly 16 months after the fire at the BioLab facility in Conyers produced a toxic plume of chemical smoke over their ServiceMaster franchise on Blacklawn Road, Chris Lovejoy said the equipment and materials in his warehouse are still inside — untouched and unusable.
Lovejoy and his business partner, Stephanie Donnelly, ran the disaster cleanup business just yards from BioLab’s Plant 12, the warehouse that caught fire on Sept. 29, 2024.
“As a company that cleans as part of our main service, that’s really frustrating for us,” Donnelly told GPB. “There’s probably nothing we haven’t cleaned except for this situation.”…