Third-floor deck crashes down at Saturday night gathering near Trinity College in Hartford, say police

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Up to 40 people have been hurt after a deck collapsed at an off-campus party at a house near Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, police have said. No major injuries have been reported.

Deputy Chief Brian Foley of the Hartford police posted on his Twitter feed early Sunday that a third-floor deck of a house collapsed onto a second-floor deck, which subsequently fell onto a first-floor deck late Saturday.

D/C Foley (@LtFoley) Off-campus party caused deck collapse. HPD and HFD responding. pic.twitter.com/D1jhxoRD6Y

Foley said the injured were sent to area hospitals. He said the building, located near the Trinity campus, was not owned by the college.

Hartford’s mayor, Luke Bronin, said in a statement it was lucky there were “no fatalities or no known critical injuries from what could have been a truly tragic incident”.

Trinity college is a liberal arts school in Hartford with about 2,200 students. It’s the second-oldest college in Connecticut after Yale.