Cat From South Florida Collapsed Building Found Alive, Returned to Family

Cat From South Florida Collapsed Building Found Alive, Returned to Family
Search and rescue workers oversee an excavator dig through the rubble of the collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida on July 9, 2021. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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SURFSIDE, Fla.—Binx the cat, who had lived on the ninth floor of the South Florida condo building that collapsed last month, has been found safe and returned to its family, officials said Friday.

Gina Nicole Vlasek, co-founder of The Kitty Campus, posted on Facebook that a black cat resembling Binx was found near the rubble of the Surfside building Thursday night and brought to the group’s nearby facility in Miami Beach. A former Champlain Towers South resident visited The Kitty Campus on Friday and confirmed that the feline was hers, Vlasek said.