Two men died in the fire which broke out this Friday at the start of the evening in a boarding house in Crest (Drôme).
Two residents, living on site, were also injured and hospitalized.
A gendarme and a municipal police officer were intoxicated by the smoke, details France 3 Auvergne Rhône-Alpes.
Firefighters quickly arrived on the scene.
Expertise, investigation and autopsies
They have put in place important means to fight against the fire.
An investigation has been launched to determine the origins of the fire.
Autopsies were to be performed on Monday.
The expert dispatched on Saturday would favor the hypothesis of an electrical malfunction, understands France Bleu Drôme Ardèche.
An electrical device used inside the boarding house may have caused the accident.
The flames appeared in a second floor apartment where the two men found dead lived.
One of them, aged 58, has been identified.
The other was in his fifties.
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