A missing 20-year-old man from upstate New York was found in D.C. after he was photographed by the Associated Press warming himself on a steam grate near the Capitol.

Nicholas Simmons went missing from his family’s Greece, N.Y. home on New Year’s Day, according to the AP. Simmons’ parents saw a photograph of their son wrapped in a blanket in Sunday’s USA Today, accompanying an article about cold weather, after it came to their attention through Facebook.

“Nick is alive and obviously not well,” Simmons’ mother, Michelle Simmons, wrote on a Facebook page that has since been take down. “[We] are going to get him home safe and this is by far the greatest example of God’s love and divine intervention I have ever experienced.”

Simmons’ photo was taken by the AP’s Jacquelyn Martin, who told the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle “I introduced myself and shook his hand and he would only say that his name was ‘Nick.’ I told him that if I could write his whole name in the photo sometimes it could help him connect with family and he said, ‘No, I’m OK, but you can just write that my name is Nick.'”

Martin was then contacted by a USA Today reporter who heard from Simmons’ sister through Twitter. Simmons was found Sunday by D.C. police near 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, where the National Gallery of Art is located, and was taken to a local hospital, where he was reunited with his father.