Unbelievable stenches and a fear of rats: mountains of trash on one corner in Mayfair grew so large that the city had to tape it off.

While police and firefighters are not on strike, many of the city's blue-collar workers, such as trash collectors, are, according to Reuters.

A strike by nearly 10,000 city workers in Philadelphia has stretched into a third day. Trash continued to pile up Thursday in some areas, and a judge ordered more than 30 Medical Examiner’s Office staffers back to work because of a growing backlog of bodies in storage.