At approximately 9:36 a., the Indian River Volunteer Fire Company was alerted for a motor vehicle accident on State Route #24 near the entrance of Baywood Greens. The incident was reported to be serious in nature and involved multiple vehicles. Actually, three vehicles were involved  one commercial work van and two mini-vans. One of the mini-vans contained 8 occupants. The Incident Commander was initially our Fire Chief, Steven C. Deery, Jr., who responded directly to the incident location and started coordinating services and resources to address this incident. Chief Deery quickly identified that potentially there were 12 occupants of the vehicles that would need various triage services and requested assistance from the Sussex County Paramedic MCI Incident Response to coordinate the EMS response. Indian Rivers arriving apparatus were assigned to assist with vehicle stabilization, occupant care, securing of the scene, and establishment of landing zones for aviation units. The emergency response personnel were coordinated to provide EMS services, occupant extrication, and to coordinate the complete closure of State Route #24. Additional resources were requested from the Delaware State Fire Police, Delaware Department of Transportation, the Delaware State Police Fatal Accident Reconstruction Team and the DSP aviation unit (Delaware Trooper 2), the Maryland State Police aviation unit (Maryland Trooper 4) as well as ambulances from our local emergency service providers including but not limited to: Frankford Fire Co. (Sta. #76), Gumboro Fire Co. (Sta. #79), Lewes Fire Co. (Sta #82), Millsboro Fire Co. (Sta. #83), Milton Fire Co. (Sta. #85), Rehoboth Fire Co. (Sta. #86), and Georgetown VFW Ambulance Co. (Sta. #93). Twenty-seven firefighters, three fire engines and one rescue responded from the Indian River Volunteer Fire Company and were in-service for approximately 2 hours. Route #24 was closed for the entire duration of the incident. A total of 12 occupants were transported to emergency medical facilities  two occupants were transported to Christiana Hospital via aviation with an additional occupant being flown to nearby facilities while ground transportation transferred nine other occupants to area hospitals. The Delaware State Police are investigating the incident.