ARIZONA FATHER FINDS TWIN GIRLS DROWNED IN BACKYARD SWIMMING POOL
- Police officials said family attempted CPR on the children
- The the twins were pronounced dead at a nearby hospital
- Police said the tragic incident is consistent with an accidental drowning
Police have released the names of the twin toddlers who tragically died after their father pulled their lifeless bodies out of their backyard pool in Arizona.
The three-year-old girls - Valentina and Penalapi Ruiz - died at the hospital on Thursday, officials said.
'Preliminary information suggests that this incident is consistent with an accidental drowning,' Phoenix Police said in a statement on Friday. 'At this time, there is nothing that investigators have found that appears suspicious.'
Phoenix Fire Capt. Rob McDade said the twin's father was the one who called 911.
McDade added the toddlers were underwater for an 'undetermined amount of time' before help arrived.
First responders took less than three minutes to get to the home on 63rd Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road and found family members administering CPR to the twins.
The girls were rushed to a nearby hospital where they were pronounced dead, officials said.
Aerial shots of the three-bedroom home showed a kidney-shaped pool that did not have fencing around it.
'You can imagine what that would look like, how taxing that would be,' McDade said to local CBS 5 News. 'A tremendous tragic scene.'
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