The number of questions, concerns and lawsuits are growing as a chemical plume continues to be emitted from a disaster created by a chemical reaction and fire in Rockdale County.
The immediate area around the Bio Lab facility off Old Covington Highway remains cordoned off with barricades guarded by Rockdale County Sheriff deputies.
This is impacting several businesses, including Service Master by Lovejoy.
"You can throw a rock from our front door to theirs," Chris Lovejoy, who owns the restoration business, said.
His building is directly across the street from the Bio Lab facility, which caught fire and then collapsed on Sunday.
Lovejoy said they'd been kept away from their property until they found a way in on Wednesday.
He and his operations manager, Stephanie Donnelly, made it to their building only to find a mess.
"Everything is coated in a film, it's kind of dusty," Donnelly explained.
She said they couldn't get into their building.
"We tried to open our front door, the key wouldn't turn, it would've broken before it turned," she said.
Lovejoy explained the locks were unusable, "assume from a chemical reaction."
It wasn't long until he said they were spotted at their business.
"He said that, 'that was his plant' behind us, " Lovejoy said, referring to Bio Lab.
He said sarcastically, "I thanked him for doing such a great job."
Lovejoy said the man got upset and then got a Rockdale County deputy who he said escorted out of the area.
He said they've yet to get inside their building.
"Basically everything that makes the company run is in there," Lovejoy said.
Donnelly said they're having to buy computers to help with payroll, rent equipment to help finish jobs and get some assistance from other area Service Master facilities.
She said they are losing tens of thousands of dollars because they can't respond because their equipment is holed up in their facility, which they can't access.
"We're trying to avoid going out of business after 25 years," she explained.
Lovejoy agreed, "Yeah, it might cripple us, that'll be a heck of a 25th anniversary."