30 to 40 of the 50 premises in the Tycor business centre have been severely damaged and will not be able to reopen<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt is believed that this will have an impact on up to 200 employees who were due to return to work after the weekend.<\/p>\n
Speaking on RT\u00c9’s Today with David McCullagh, Ms MacCann said: “I don’t think it will be possible to restart the business, even though I love it.<\/p>\n
“Because even if the costumes aren’t completely destroyed, they will be badly damaged by water and smoke.”<\/p>\n
“There’s too much stuff there to replace,” she said, “you just couldn’t”.<\/p>\n
“I think I have run my course on that now. Unfortunately, I mean, I love the business, but you couldn’t get the styles, the vintage for all the productions we do across the board. They’re all so different.”<\/p>\n
She explained that she has not seen the premises in person, but believes it was very badly damaged and the roof is gone.<\/p>\n
“I haven’t got any great information at the moment, because all day yesterday, it was in the hands of the fire chief,” she said.<\/p>\n
Watch: Drone footage shows aftermath of fire in Waterford city<\/p>\n
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“It was devastating to see the flames fly up into the sky on Saturday night,” she added.<\/p>\n
‘It’s just ash, there’s nothing left’<\/p>\n
The owner of DG Foods described the site as “all ash”, and “complete dust”.<\/p>\n
Speaking on RT\u00c9\u2019s Morning Ireland, Andrew Hepburn said his family-run business has been operating out of the Tycor facility for 20 years and has 13 employees.<\/p>\n
“It’s just ash, there’s nothing left. Skeleton frames of racking, forklift completely burnt out, freezer gone. It’s just complete dust.<\/p>\n
“It’s like a big bonfire at Halloween, what’s left embers”.<\/p>\n
He said that as his food business has a second location, it can continue, but all the stock in the Tycor facility has been destroyed.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s devastating”, he said, “within minutes it was gone”.<\/p>\n
Mr Hepburn said he cannot yet put a value on the loss, but he hopes that the Government will give financial support to businesses.<\/p>\n
Humanitarian assistance to be set up<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Minister of State Mary Butler said she hopes humanitarian assistance will be available quickly for those impacted by the fire.<\/p>\n
Ms Butler said she spoke with the Taoiseach yesterday and said Miche\u00e1l Martin confirmed that a humanitarian scheme will be set up, similar to those implemented when areas are impacted by flooding.<\/p>\n
She said she also spoke with Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke and Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary.<\/p>\n
Ms Butler said it will take some businesses a few days to assess the extent of damage to their properties.<\/p>\n
“We’re dependent on drone footage, but the smoke damage will be massive, even if there wasn’t damage from the fire impact,” the Fianna F\u00e1il TD for Waterford said.<\/p>\n
Efforts are also under way to see what immediate steps can be taken to provide services to clients of a day service, she said.<\/p>\n
The service provides help for up to 30 people with high dependent needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The co-founder of NoMac Productions, one of the dozens of businesses severely impacted by a fire at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-443088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}