Rockdale County officials invited BioLab to the press conference where the lift of the shelter-in-place was announced, but they never showed.
“I don’t necessarily feel unsafe, but I don’t know. I feel like they’re just saying that just to do something,” Stanley Hamm said.
He and his parents have lived just yards away from BioLab since 1971. They were there when the first toxic disaster happened in 2004.
“That time we left. Now, it’s just like you’re a prisoner in your own home by command, which I don’t like that, but it is what it is, I guess,” Hamm said.
They’re being careful — not running the air conditioning and staying indoors. They originally left but came back when the county said it was safe. When the shelter-in-place was activated again, they were forced to stay because his parents are older.
“It was better for them to not be moved …