(CNN) Binx, a cat who lived on the ninth floor of the Champlain Towers South, was reunited with his family on Friday after volunteers found him near the site of the collapse, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a news conference. "After 16 long and extremely difficult days, I'm happy to be able to share a small piece of good news," the mayor said Friday evening. Levine Cava said there are people who feed the cats in the area surrounding the collapse site and one of the volunteers thought they recognized the cat and brought it to an animal shelter, "where it was positively identified" as belonging to one of the families in the building. The mayor did not identify the family that the cat belongs to. "Thank you from the bottom of my heart and all of us who are so happy to have played a role in returning Binx with his family," Levine Cava said.

Source: CNN July 10, 2021 00:10 UTC