6 injured, including children, in multi-vehicle crash in Lake Balboa

LAKE BALBOA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- One person suffered critical injuries Saturday during a multi-vehicle crash in Lake Balboa where at least five other people were also injured, authorities said.

Firefighters and paramedics were dispatched at 10:16 a.m. to the 16500 block of W. Victory Blvd. regarding a "trapped vehicle,'' which required extrication, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported.

In addition to the critically injured victim, three people were taken to a hospital in fair to serious condition and two others suffered minor, non-life-threatening injuries.

LAFD officials said the injured people were two men, two women and two children.

Five were from one vehicle and one was in a second vehicle.

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