PORT ANGELES — Two 16-year-old boys were found dead Tuesday in a rural garage east of Port Angeles where they had gone to refuel an emergency electrical generator, deputies said.

The two apparently died of carbon monoxide poisoning from the generator’s motor, according to Clallam County Sgt. Lyman Moores.

The unincorporated area east of Port Angeles had been without power since Sunday afternoon after a snowstorm hit earlier that day.

“The initial investigation indicates that the two boys entered the garage where a gas-combustion generator was running, and were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes,” Moores said.

“It is a closed-in area and the generator was running. They wouldn’t have known.”

The Clallam County Sheriff’s Department declined to release the names Tuesday afternoon, saying that the teens’ next of kin had not been notified.

Deputies were called to the detached garage at 693 John Jacobs Road about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday to investigate the deaths of the boys — apparently home because of school cancellations due to the snow.

Moores said the initial investigation indicated that the two had entered the garage to refuel the generator and were overcome by the colorless, odorless carbon monoxide fumes.

The generator’s gasoline tank was found full, he said.