16 days later, a cat living on the ninth floor is found alive

A cat who lived on the ninth floor of the collapsed apartment in Miami, Florida, was found alive and returned to his family, two weeks after the tragedy.

The black feline, called Binx, was seen wandering near the rubble of the Champlain Towers in Surfside and taken to the rescue team Kitty Campus.

“After 16 long and incredibly difficult days, I can share a little good news: Binx of Champlain Towers South has found, ”tweeted Miami-Dade County Mayor Danielle Levine Cava.

“thank you from the heart and on behalf of our community to the team that played a role in reuniting him with his family, ”added the manager, accompanied by a photo of the little feline.

“Pets are part of the family, and it’s a miracle,” said Maria Gaspari, a friend of the cat’s family, happily, according to local sources. “I’m shaking right now, “he added.

“In the middle of this sadness, we were expecting good news for the survivors or for any pets, ”he said of the rescue of Binx, who belongs to the González family, who lived in unit 904.

Angela González and her daughter Deven were among the first to be rescued from the rubble and were hospitalized.

Deven’s older sister, Tayler González, was not at home during the collapse and father, Edgar González, still missing.

86 dead

Search teams rescued seven other bodies on Saturday, which the provisional death toll from the collapse has risen to 86. The missing, meanwhile, are now 43.

As Levine Cava reports, police and medical examiners are working around the clock to identify bodies and be able to notify loved ones. Until 62 victims have been identified.

This Saturday, the body of Argentinian lawyer Nicole “Nicky” Langesfeld, 26, was identified by Miami-Dade police as one of those rescued from the rubble.

Police reported that was found on July 7, but official confirmation of his identity was given on Saturday. On the night of the tragedy, she was in an 8th floor apartment with her new husband, Venezuelan Luis Sadovnic, still missing.

Daughter of Argentines, “Nicky” was born in the United States, but had papers from our country.

Nicole Langesfeld is the fifth fatal victim of Argentine nationality who identifies with the victims of the collapse. She joins Graciela Cattarossi, her father Gino and her sister Andrea. On Friday, meanwhile, they identified the body of 21-year-old Argentinian Ilan Naibryf, who was studying physics at the University of Chicago. He was on the 8th floor of the building with his Puerto Rican girlfriend Deborah Berezdivin, whose body had been identified hours earlier.

The young Argentinian went to high school in the Hawaii Preparatory Academy, where he learned to surf, play football and cross country. Specialised in create prostheses at the robotics center.

Meanwhile, the mother of Graciela Cattarosi, of Uruguayan nationality, also died in the landslide, like Graciela’s seven-year-old daughter of American nationality.

With information from ANSA.

LGP