By Jason Hall
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A pet cat lost in the Surfside condominium collapse last month was found safe and returned to its family.
Binx the Cat, who lived on the ninth floor of the Champlain Towers South condominium, was found near the rubble of the building Thursday (July 8) night,
Gina Nicole Vlasek, co-founder of The Kitty Campus, posted about a black cat resembling Binx being found at the site and brought to the group s facility in Miami Beach, which a former Champlain Towers South resident confirmed was her feline.
Binx was returned to its owner on Friday (July 9), Vlasek confirmed.
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Seventeen days
into responding to a condominium collapse, officials in Surfside, Fla., say the total number of confirmed dead has risen to 86. Police and medical examiners are working around the clock to notify victims as work at the collapse site intensifies, officials say.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said 62 of the victims have so far been identified, with next of kin of 61 of them having been notified of the deaths.
Using information from the post office, driver’s licenses and the building roster, Levine Cava said work continues to audit a list of those who have been accounted for in the collapse.
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Photo taken on July 7, 2021 shows the site of the collapsed building in Miami-Dade County, Florida, the United States.
The death toll from the condo collapse in Surfside, the US state of Florida, has risen to 86, a local official said Saturday. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said during a news conference that the death toll from the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South reached 86, of whom 62 have been identified. Sixty-one victims next of kin have been notified, and another 43 remained unaccounted for, according to the mayor. Local authorities have been working with the US Postal Service in the identification process, including checking the victims driver s license information, Levine Cava said. We can only truly account for a missing person who is deceased once an identification is made.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue
Originally published on July 10, 2021 2:52 pm
There was one spot of good news amid the search for the dead in Surfside, Fla. A cat named Binx, who had lived on the ninth floor of the collapsed building, was found alive and reunited with his family. I m glad that this small miracle could bring some light into the lives of a hurting family today and provide a bright spot for our whole community in the midst of this terrible tragedy, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told reporters at a press conference on Friday.
Levine Cava said a volunteer who feeds cats on the street recognized the cat in the vicinity of the building and brought the cat to an animal shelter, where it was positively identified.