The Hamilton County Herald won first place in the category for “Best Feature Photograph” at the 2013 Tennessee State Press Association Awards, held last week in Nashville. The award-winning photograph was taken by news editor David Laprad during the Chattanooga Fire Department’s live training in February 2012, when recruits set fire to an abandoned house and then put into practice the fire fighting skills they had learned up to that point. The photograph was published as part of a feature titled “Chattanooga had zero fire fatalities in 2012.” Pictured: Chattanooga Fire Department Chief Lamar Flint and Laprad standing next to a tear sheet of the feature, currently hanging on a wall at the fire department. (Susanne Reed)