The Brunswick Fire Department responded to a porch collapse on Back Cove Road that injured three people Saturday.

All three were taken to Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick.

No information on the extent of injuries was available.

The collapse was reported at 9:37 a.m. Saturday.

Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Emerson said it appeared tenants or people assisting the tenants were moving a mattress up onto the deck when the deck system supports failed, dropping one side of the approximately 6-foot-by-8- foot second story balconystyle deck down onto a firstfloor deck.

Three people were injured, Emerson said: two people on the collapsed deck and one who was beneath it.

While there were multiple people present, Emerson said there was no reason to suspect the deck was overcrowded.

The fire department responded with an engine and three ambulances.

The fire department responds to calls such as the porch collapse, Emerson said, to conduct a preliminary investigation similar to a fire investigation.

Jeffrey Hutchinson, Brunswick’s code enforcement officer, visited the site Monday afternoon, which occurred at a single family home.

The story-and-a-half deck failed as a result of old age, Hutchinson said.

He noted the sliding-glass door used to access the deck had been physically secured so it couldn’t be used.

Hutchinson said maintenance of single-family home decks are the responsibility of the homeowner.

In this case, he said the small deck probably had a significant amount of weight on it.

Luckily, no one was seriously hurt, he said.

Hutchinson advised homeowners to check their porches and their decks, and if suspicious of its strength, to either call a contractor “or call our office and we’ll be happy to go out and check.”

He added, “Like anything else, decks do age and wood does not last forever.”

dmoore@timesrecord.com