At 8:47 a.m., Tuesday March 6, numerous 911 calls were received for a motor vehicle accident with entrapment and multiple victims in the Kalifornsky Beach area.

Central Emergency Services firefighters and rescue personnel arrived on scene near Kalifornsky Beach Rd and Gaswell Rd to find a head-on collision had occurred  between two mini-vans. The highway was closed in both directions for about an hour while rescuers extricated and transported the victims.

Medics treated six patients, four of them children, and had to extricate both drivers from their vehicles.

One driver suffered two broken hips, a broken tib/fib, a broken elbow and numerous bruises and scrapes.

The other driver suffered a cerebral contusion and other minor injuries. Three of the children were treated and released, the fourth child required stitches to close a wound on his hip. The cause of the accident is still being investigated by Alaska State Troopers.

Central Emergency Services responded with four medic units, a heavy rescue unit, command personnel and responders from both the On-Call and EMS Divisions.