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KATE AMARA IS LIVE IN WEST BALTIMORE. REPORTER: THERE ARE KIDS RIDING THEIR BIKES IN THIS ALLEY. THEY CAN DO IT BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THE ALLEYS THAT WAS CLEANED UP BY THIS GROUP OF GARBAGE MEN FROM FLORIDA. THE GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE POLITICS AROUND ALL OF THIS AND THEY WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH US, TELLING US TODAY, POLITICS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH US COLLECTING GARBAGE. >> THIS IS BEAUTIFUL. THAT THEY CAME ALL THE WAY FROM FLORIDAY JUST TO CLEAN UP THE -- FLORIDA JUST TO CLEAN UP THE AREAS IN BALTIMORE CITY. I THINK THAT IS BEAUTIFUL. REPORTER: THIS IS RENEE, FROM WEST BALTIMORE. WE TALKED TO HER AS A CREW OF 8 GARBAGE MEN FROM OUT OF STATE, AND IN ORANGE SHIRTS CLEANED UP HER STREET SIDEWALKS AND ALLEY THE SCENE BROUGHT ONE WOMAN TO THE CURB WITH HER OWN CONTRIBUTION. AND THEN, IT BROUGHT HER TEARS. -- BROUGHT HER TO TEARS. >> I DON’T KONW WHAT TO SAY. I AM JUST SO OVERWHELMED. REPORTER: YOU’RE EMOTIONAL. >> YES. BUT THIS, THIS IS GORGEOUS. REPORTER: SHE IS EMOTIONAL, SHE SAYS BECAUSE THEY WORK HARD TO KEEP THIS BLOCK OF APPLETON CLEAN. BUT CAN’T STOP THE ILLEGAL DUMPING. >> AND I COMPLAIN ALL THE TIME ABOUT IT TO 311 ABOUT COMING O HERE TO CLEAN THE ALLEY AND NOBODY HAS COME OUT. REPORTER: ON THURSDAY, A GUY NAMED JOHN ROURKE SHOWED UP. DROVE UP, ACTUALLY, FROM FLORIDA, WITH 7 FRIENDS, A GARBAGE TRUCK, AND A PLAN TO CLEAN 12 SQUARE BLOCKS OF BALTIMORE CITY IN THREE DAYS SAYS HE HEARD ABOUT BALTIMORE. -- BALTIMORE FROM THAT SOCIAL MEDIA FRENZY SPARKED BY THE PRESIDENT ON TWITTER. BUT IS NOT HERE FOR POLITICS, PUBLICITY, OR TO PLACE BLAME >> PEOPLE CAN PICK UP LITTER, BUT OU CAN’T EXPECT PEOPLE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD TO PICK UP A COUCH. THAT’S BEEN DUMPED INTO AN ALLEY OR A ROCKING CHAIR, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. WHAT ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO DO WITH IT? REPORTER: COUNSEL PRESIDENT BRANDON SCOTT SAYS THE CITY HAS TO DEAL WITH THE CULTURE OF ILLEGAL DUMPING. >> AND WE HAVE TO BE BETTER AS A CITY, AND PROVIGING THE -- IN PROVIDING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR DPW TO BE BETTER AND PUT PRESSURE ON THEM TO CLEAN UP AND DO BETTE REPORTER: AN IDEA OF HOW ENTRENCHED THE CULTURE OF ILLEGAL DUMPING IS HERE, RESIDENTS WHO WERE SO HAPPY THIS MORNING ARE VERY IRRITATED TONIGHT, MAKING SURE THAT KNOW SHORTLY AFTER THIS CREW CLEARED AN ALLEY ACROSS THE STRE HERE, THAT PEOPLE CAME AND DUMPED TRASH. REPORTING LIVE FROM WEST BALTIMORE, WHERE THE KIDS ARE RIDING

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A team of people dressed in orange shirts are hauling off garbage over the next couple of days in west Baltimore.Renee and other residents who live on Appleton Street in west Baltimore described the trash collection as beautiful."This is beautiful that they came all the way from Florida to clean up Baltimore City. That's awesome," Renee said."I love it. I love it. This is beautiful. This is what we need. We have been waiting for this. Thanks so much," said Lil Barney, a resident. "I don't know what to say. I am just so overwhelmed." Barney was thanking the eight-person team that drove to Baltimore from Florida with its own garbage truck to clean the west Baltimore street.John Rourke calls his crew "The Traveling Trashmen of Jupiter, Florida.""We're garbage men. They have a garbage problem. So who's better to solve a garbage problem than garbage men?" Rourke said.Rourke said he heard about Baltimore's trash issue from the social media frenzy sparked by the president on Twitter. But he said he is not here for politics, publicity or to place blame.But the effort isn't about picking up litter or sweeping stoops and sidewalks. The longtime residents of the block already do that. What they can't do is haul away mounds of trash that someone dumped illegally."People can pick up litter, but you can't expect people in this neighborhood to pick up a couch that has been dumped into an alley, or a rocking chair, or something like that. What are they supposed to do with it?" Rourke said.Residents said they've asked the city to help to provide more trash cans, clear illegal dumping and enforce laws prohibiting it. They are begging the city to, at the very least, post "no dumping" signs."I complain all the time about it to 311 about coming out here to clean the alley, and nobody came out," said Althea Robinson, a resident.Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott said the city has to deal with the culture of illegal dumping."We have to be better as a city, and providing the opportunity for (the Department of Public Works) to be better and put pressure on them to clean up and do better," Scott said.The volunteer group cleaned the sidewalks, streets and alleys in more than 12 square blocks. They plan to return home Sunday.