ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) \u2014 A two-story deck collapsed at a vacation rental in Florida, leaving more than a dozen people injured and sending eight of the victims to the hospital, officials said.<\/p>\n
Crime scene tape surrounded the property in St. Johns County near Jacksonville where the incident happened Sunday.<\/p>\n
St. Johns County Fire Rescue units responded to the scene along South Ponte Vedra Boulevard, at around 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
To the right of the house, the collapsed deck could be seen, and that\u2019s where, firefighters said, several people were hurt.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe evaluated a total of 13 patients on scene and ended up transporting eight of them,\u201d said St. John\u2019s County Fire Rescue spokesperson Chris Naff.<\/p>\n
Officials said everyone was already off the deck when crews arrived.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was nobody trapped by the debris. We didn\u2019t have to rescue anybody out from underneath the debris,\u201d said Naff.<\/p>\n
Nearby homeowners were intially confused when they heard the commotion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe weren\u2019t sure what happened, so to hear that the deck collapsed is pretty insane,\u201d said nearby homeowner Nicholas Recco.<\/p>\n
Others pointed to concerns about how that rental property was maintained.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that house is rented quite a bit, quite a bit. There\u2019s always different people on the beach,\u201d said nearby homeowner, Frank Recco. \u201cA lot of these houses are not maintained. I guess that\u2019s the problem [with] a lot of these rental properties.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cause of the collapse remains under investigation.<\/p>\n
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