The nearly two-week-long garbage strike impacting thousands of homes and businesses across the Bay Area is all but over after the waste disposal company and union workers struck a tentative contract deal.

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

The work stoppage pitting Republic Services against the Teamsters has gone from a headache to a public health risk, Gov. Maura Healey said Thursday.

Canton’s U-12 softball team is capitalizing on the ongoing trash strike to raise funds for their upcoming regional games in Connecticut.

Americans across the country are seeing trash pile up as workers in numerous cities are striking or observing picket lines.

Unionized Republic Services workers returned to the job Friday as they stopped honoring the picket line in solidarity with the Boston Teamsters who were on strike on the East Coast.