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# TBS Today, April 14
- URL: https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/04/14/newsletters/tbs-today-april-14-2025/
- Published: 2025-04-14T23:00:13.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-14T23:00:13.000Z
- Description: East Bay Media Center fire; train strike; police shooting updates.
- Author: Editor's desk
- Tags: Newsletters, #newsletters

Last night: A major fire destroyed a downtown Berkeley institution. 

We also have the sad news of a person struck by a train, along with some updates on yesterday's police shooting.

If you have information, including photos and videos, about any of these incidents, we'd [love to hear from you](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/tips/). We are always open to keeping tipsters anonymous. 

[Fire tears through East Bay Media Center overnightBFD found 20- to 30-foot flames breaching the roof, “touching adjacent buildings \[and\] threatening to engulf the surrounding structures.”![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-599.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_2519.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/04/14/community/berkeley-fire-east-bay-media-center/)

[Man struck by Amtrak train in BerkeleyBFD rushed the patient to Highland Hospital with a “Code 3” trauma activation, authorities said.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-601.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/35267940921_30e7bd2f15_k.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/04/14/traffic-safety/berkeley-amtrak-train-man-struck/)

[Update: Suspicious item was not a bomb, Berkeley police sayOfficers found the item in the area of Sunday morning’s police shooting, which left a man in critical condition.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-600.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/DYXS1790_twt_1200-1.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/04/13/crime/berkeley-police-evacuate-building-possible-bomb/)

### In case you missed it

[Man in critical condition after Berkeley police shootingAt one point, the man racked a shotgun and threatened to shoot officers if they approached him, according to radio traffic reviewed by The Scanner.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-602.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/Photo-Apr-13-2025--9-55-41-AM-2.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/04/13/shootings/berkeley-police-shooting-man-critical/)

[Berkeley’s Civic Center Park encampment has been removedBerkeley City Councilman Igor Tregub provided an update on the encampment in an email to constituents this week.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-603.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_4995-1.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/04/11/community/berkeleys-civic-center-park-homeless-encampment-removed/)

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