Cause of Technicote Fire Unknown

got a call at 3:49 a.m. to report to the fire. The main blaze was under control within three or four hours, said Deputy Fire Marshal Tim Mier.

All ten workers there at the time escaped unharmed. No firefighters were harmed.

A secondary alarm was put out for mutual aid, bringing one unit each from Akron, Stow, Tallmadge and Monroe Falls.

The cause of the fire is still unknown at this time, though it damaged a good portion of the building.

Technicote manufactures adhesives, papers and films. Sections of the facility, including some offices, manufacturing space and maintenance area were relatively unharmed. Workers are going through Technicote now, cleaning and salvaging what they can, said Mier.

Some fire fighters had remained on the scene until the morning of Dec. 18.

“We kept a unit there because of potential, small fire flair-ups,” Mier said.

One witness had goose bumps watching the fire Friday morning around 8 a.m. to see black smoke pouring out of the Technicote facility.

“I watched as four fire stations worked hard to put this fire out,” said the witness, Katie Saffell. “I was in awe that it took so much manpower, and they were struggling to put it out.” 

Though it was a larger fire, there was no property damage of surrounding owners, and the Technicote workers’ jobs are safe.