A Florida woman was pulled out of a storm drain for the third time in two years last week.
The Delray Beach Police Department said officers and firefighters responded to a report of a woman possibly in distress while swimming in a canal near the 500 block of Lindell Boulevard around noon Wednesday. The department said officers located the woman, identified as Lyndsey Jane Kennedy, and asked if she needed help.
Kennedy reportedly ignored them and climbed into a storm drain pipe. Delray police said he refused to get out and began to crawl further into the sewer pipe, which ran under Lindell Boulevard.
Firefighters were able to hold Kennedy between two sections of pipe while the Delray Beach Fire Rescue Special Operations Team used a ladder and rescue harness to pull her out.
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Lyndsey Kennedy was rescued from a storm drain for the third time on January 18, 2023.
(Grand Prairie Police Department)
Kennedy appeared to have minor injuries and was treated at the scene before being transported to a hospital for further evaluation.
Delray police said the fire department previously rescued Kennedy from a storm drain in March 2021 after she had been missing for three weeks.
According to local media outlets at the time, Kennedy told police she went swimming in a canal near her boyfriend’s house on March 3, the same night her boyfriend reported her missing. As she swam, she said that she entered a door in the shallow part of the channel and noticed a tunnel. She continued to follow the tunnels until she realized that she was lost.
Kennedy was eventually rescued near the intersection of West Atlantic Avenue and SW 11th Avenue after a woman called 911 to report a woman screaming for help from inside the drain. She said that she had stopped walking in that area because she could see light and people walking past her.
The woman, who was 43 at the time, told police that she had been walking in the sewer system for about three weeks. She also said that she had been living off an unopened can of ginger beer that she found in the drain while she was looking for a way out.
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Delray police said Kennedy “appeared to be coherent” and did not need to be Baker Acted (involuntarily institutionalized). Police contacted his mother, who said she has a history of mental illness, frequently uses illegal narcotics and has a history of doing “weird things” and “making bad decisions.”
Before she disappeared, Kennedy’s family members said she attended a Bible study with her mother where they learned about the journey of the prophet Elijah. Her relatives said Kennedy wrote her mother a note from her saying she planned to go on her own journey.
Despite that, the family said they did not believe their trip was meant to be in a storm drain.
He was reportedly listed as “endangered” on the sheriff’s office’s missing persons paperwork, with a detective writing in the report that he disappeared “under similar circumstances” in April 2020.
Lyndsey Kennedy, 43, has only a couple of scraped and bloody knees before she is loaded onto a stretcher en route to a Florida hospital for medical treatment.
(Delray Beach Fire Rescue)
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Kennedy’s third rescue from the storm drain took place in Grand Prairie, Texas, two months later, in May 2021. City police searched for her for four days before her mother and best friend found her in a canal.
In this case, he reportedly walked away from a rehab center after checking in. When police saw the woman near a creek and began to approach her, they dove into a nearby storm drain, according to WPEC.
A tracking app on his cell phone allowed his family to find his last location before he disappeared underground. Before she was rescued from her, her family and friends dumped bags of food and Gatorade into area sewers.
A sewer opening in Delray Beach, Florida.
(Delray Beach Police Department)
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Kennedy was reportedly arrested in Florida in July 2021 after a hit-and-run occurred when she sped out of a gas station after stealing beer. She nearly ran over the store clerk, who chased her out of the store, then ran several red lights before colliding with a car.
Palm Beach County deputies said she ran from the scene of the accident to an apartment complex, but staff led them to her.
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Kennedy’s passenger, who was injured, told police she ran because she did not have a driver’s license. Police said her license had been suspended 17 times between 2007 and 2020.
