‘Make better choices’: Crews rescue woman who crawled 500 feet into casino drainage pipe, got stuck
By Nick Sloan
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMBC) — Kansas City firefighters rescued a woman who became trapped deep inside a storm drain Wednesday night.
The Kansas City Fire Department said crews were called around 7:20 p.m. to the 3200 block of North Ameristar Drive after receiving reports of a person stuck underground.
When firefighters arrived, they confirmed a woman in her 40s was trapped several hundred feet inside a storm drain pipe.
Rescue crews with the department’s specialized rescue division secured the area and sent a team into the pipe to reach the woman and begin extrication.
After nearly 90 minutes of rescue operations, firefighters were able to free the woman around 9:30 p.m., according to the department.
Fire officials said the woman had been stuck for several hours before being rescued.
She was transported to a local hospital for evaluation and was reported to be in stable condition.
No other injuries were reported.
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