The St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office has released the names of two people who lost their lives in a rural St. Tammany Parish Parish house fire last month.

The Coroner's Office identified the men as Micheal Hope, 76, and Michael Scottivo, 56. Both died of smoke inhalation and their deaths were ruled accidental, the Coroner's Office said.

Firefighters responded to a house fire on Sun Drive in the Village of Sun on the afternoon of Sept. 28, authorities said. The home was engulfed in flames when they arrived.

The bodies of the two men were found inside, but positive identification took several weeks because DNA had to be collected from family members who live out of state, a coroner's spokesperson said.

Both men listed the home on Sun Drive as their addess. After the fire, neighbors

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