Officials in Sitka have discovered the body of a building official who went missing after a series of deadly landslides struck the southeast Alaska town.

The city annoucned Tuesday that the body of 62-year-old William Sortz was discoverd around 4:15 p.m. Alaska time on the city's southside. Stortz had been working on a construction site on Aug. 18 when heaps of debris including logs and mud came hurling down toward the neighborhood.

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

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

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

"William was hard working, intelligent, and a very kind man. Our family knew him and he was well respected throughout Sitka," McConnell said. "William and the Diaz brothers will be missed. One day the landslides will be cleaned up, but Sitka will never be the same."