Damaged portion removed 24 hours after the fire. (Photo: Lisa-Marie Baran)
FISHKILL – Crews spent part of Wednesday razing a portion of the
one-million-square-foot Gap distribution center in Fishkill that went
up in flames Monday night into Tuesday.
State, Dutchess County and local investigators remain on the scene along with federal Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives specialists with their national task force.
County Executive Marcus Molinaro and his team are working to facilitate full operations for the company, which is heading into its busy fall/winter holiday season. The Fishkill operation is Gap’s northeast regional distribution center and its online distribution facility.
“How do we assist those employees who will be and are displaced and then how do we assist the Gap either running effectively as it can on the current site or identifying an alternate location for them to do some alternate work,” Molinaro said.
The Gap’s Fishkill campus has a more than 1.2-million-square-foot second facility. Together the two massive buildings employed some 600 people. Molinaro said they had plans to increase that to 1,300 for the holiday season, but he doubts the company will do that at the current location.
