The Maricopa Police Department has identified the two occupants of a vehicle that plunged into a local lake.
MPD spokesman Ricardo Alvarado reports Bernadette Rose Lopez , 59, and Eileen Olive Brown, 46, are both still alive, but their condition is unknown.
They were traveling in a Chevy Venture van when it left the roadway on Rancho Mirage Boulevard and went into the lake near Honeycutt Road at 8:39 a.m. today.
Police officers and firefighters went into the water to free Lopez and then returned to extricate Brown.
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