The area affected by Sunday's landslide in the Third Avenue Bypass/Second Avenue area of Ketchikan is seen in this image provided Tuesday by the National Weather Service geologic team.
Clear skies on Monday morning showed the extent of Sunday afternoon's landslide that swept 1,100 feet down the steep, wooded hillside above a Ketchikan neighborhood, taking out a portion of the Rainbird Trail and pouring across the Third Avenue Bypass before damaging several homes in the Second Avenue area just west of Whitecliff Avenue.
The landslide resulted in the death of one person, Sean Griffin, a City of Ketchikan Public Works senior maintenance technician who was on the Third Avenue Bypass with another Public Works crew member clearing stormwater drains when they were caught in the sli...
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