Alaska landslide: Searchers recover 3rd body in Sitka

Searchers on Tuesday found the body of a citybuilding official who went missing in an landslide in Sitka, Alaska last week.

The body of 62-year-old William Stortz, a building official forSitka, was found at 4:15 p.m. Alaska Time Tuesday on the south sideof the landslide, the city announced in a news release.

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Stortz was working near newly built homes on Aug. 18 when logs, mudand debris slid down a hillside into the neighbourhood.

The slide came after 2.5 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.

Brothers Elmer and Ulises Diaz were painting a new house and werekilled. The bodies of Elmer, 26, and Ulises Diaz, 25, were found inthe debris of logs and muck last week.

In a statement Tuesday, Sitka Mayor Mim McConnell praised Stortzand the Diaz brothers.

"William was hard working, intelligent, and a very kind man. Ourfamily knew him and he was well respected throughout Sitka,"McConnell said.

"William and the Diaz brothers will be missed. Oneday the landslides will be cleaned up, but Sitka will never be thesame."