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The fire, first reported late Tuesday morning at 18390 North Shore Drive, drew dozens of firefighters from around the county.
The Lake County Arson Task Force had been called to the scene Tuesday to lead the investigation.
South Lake County Fire District Battalion Chief Scott Upton, the incident commander on the fire, said Wednesday that the investigation had concluded that the fire’s cause was “accidental but undetermined.”
He said the home’s insurance company is planning to conduct some more advanced testing.
“So hopefully we’ll get more of a determination,” he said.
Upton said the two people injured in the fire were listed as being in critical condition on Wednesday morning.
Both were transported via air ambulances to out-of-county trauma centers, one to UC Davis Medical Center, one to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, officials reported.
The fire victims’ names were not released by the fire district, and the Lake County Sheriff’s Office did not have their names for release on Wednesday.
CHP Officer Josh Dye, who had been one of the first on scene and helped tend one of the burn victims, suffered some smoke inhalation and was taken to the hospital on Tuesday, according to CHP Officer Kory Reynolds, the Clear Lake CHP Area office’s public information officer.
However, Dye was back at work on Wednesday and doing great after getting “a little too much smoke,” Reynolds said.
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