Responding firefighters were met with heavy flames that caused a “significant risk” to the nearby building, according to officials.

On Friday, the teamsters representing garbage collectors in Boston reported that the waste disposal company held a 5-hour caucus.

Negotiations between Republic Services and Teamsters broke down late last week. Talks are set to resume Tuesday, but the impacts of the trash strike are growing more pronounced.

Both the City of San Diego and Teamsters confirmed to ABC 10News that the solidarity strike has ended, indicating that Republic Services' trash services will be fully restored for residents.

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Governor Maura Healey weighed in on the weekslong strike thwarting trash pickup in at least 14 Greater Boston communities on Thursday morning, urging Republic Services to reach a deal.

In solidarity with a nationwide strike in support of union workers in Boston, trash collection in Rosemead has ceased this week, city officials announced Wednesday. While the underlying labor dispute is unrelated to the city of Rosemead,

It’s bad enough to imagine the unsightly, unhealthy, stinking-to-high-heaven fallout from a garbage workers’ strike in mid-summer in hot and humid Boston. But, well, Boston is 3,000 miles from

Trash is already starting to pile up at apartment complexes and commercial properties in central San Diego as some Republic Services trash collectors join a sympathy strike with workers in Boston.

A federal mediator was scheduled to meet with members of the Teamsters Local 25 and the trash company providing garbage services in more than a dozen Bay State cities and towns on Tuesday.