Woman crawls through 300 feet of feces, bugs to rescue kitten stuck in sewer

A kitten was rescued in Florida — a daring operation that had been in the works since Sunday.

A woman crawled about 300 feet in a sewer to rescue the kitten on Friday morning, after repeated attempts all week to get it out of the drain in Delray Beach.

Lindsey Bembli told WPEC she heard the kitten crying for help Sunday. Firefighters arrived on the scene, but couldn't pull the kitten out.

Bembli said she left food for the kitten and made several tries during the week to grab it, but it kept running away.

She and her friends kept at it. The persistence paid off. Lindsey's friend Liz Jones, with Operation Liberation, is the one who crawled down in the sewer and shared some of her video from the tunnel.

I didn't want him to die down there," Bembli said. "This isn't what rescue is, it's not out of the ordinary. It's the kind of thing that we do on a regular basis."

Jones crawled through 300 feet of feces, spiders and cockroaches to rescue the feline. His rescuers have named him Donatello after the purple-wearing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle who lives in a sewer in the cartoon. A GoFundMe has been set up to help with the cost of Donatello's rehabilitation.

Delray Beach firefighters have been busy on animal rescue calls.

On Thursday, firefighters rescued a duck and her three ducklings from a drain on North Ocean Boulevard.