DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. — A shelter-in-place order for the neighborhood around a Douglas County food distribution center has been lifted.
County officials say there was an ammonia leak at the Gordon Food Service Distribution Center on N. River Road near Riverside Parkway on Tuesday afternoon.
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Emergency management officials issued a shelter-in-place order for everyone within a half-mile radius of the facility around 2:45 p.m. That order was lifted shortly after 4 p.m.
There is no word on what led up to the leak.
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