Woman rescued from storm drain near Ameristar Casino in Kansas City’s Northland
A woman in her 40s was rescued from a storm drain in Kansas City’s Northland Wednesday.
The Kansas City Fire Department responded to reports of a “confined space rescue” in the 3200 block of North Ameristar Drive, near the Ameristar Casino Hotel, at 7:20 p.m., according to a press release from battalion Chief Michael Hopkins.
After arriving at the scene, first-responders located a woman in her 40s trapped in a storm drain, Hopkins said. Emergency personnel reported the woman was “several hundred feet in the pipe.”
The fire department’s rescue division sent a team into the pipe, and the woman was rescued at 9:30 p.m., Hopkins said. The woman was transported to an area hospital in stable condition.
At the time of her rescue, the woman had been stuck in the storm drain for several hours, Hopkins said. It took first-responders 90 minutes to extract the woman from the pipe.
This story was originally published February 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM.
