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When Safety Sprinklers Became the Spark: Conyers' Orange Smoke Crisis
When Safety Sprinklers Became the Spark: Conyers' Orange Smoke Crisis
An early-morning sprinkler in Conyers released water that touched a stockpile of pool sanitizer and, within minutes, an orange-and-black smoke column rose high enough to be seen thirty miles away at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport. How did a safety system trigger toxic chlorine-laced smoke that forced 90,000 people to shelter in place and echo earlier disasters in the same county?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence from a leaking hot-water pipe to a warehouse collapse and prolonged EPA air monitoring, following the…
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