Garbage Strike Heats Up

By News Staff

Posted July 19, 2009 6:52 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

On one end of the city, residents awoke to the sound of exploding trash after someone set a pile on fire overnight. On the other, angry protesters gathered at a temporary dump site.

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