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.”…

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