Spot News - First Place, “Deputy Rescue”Members of a combined SWAT team rescue wounded deputy Matthew Yates after he was shot in the Harmony Estates Mobile Home Park while responding to a domestic violence call. (Marshall Gorby / Dayton Daily News)
Spot News - Second Place, “Fire”Stephanie Hehl reacts as her apartment at Hunt Club Apartments burns down in Sylvania. Hehl said “My whole life is crumbling apart.” (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Spot News - Third Place, “River Rescue”Firefighters from the German Township Fire Department rescue one of four people who were trapped in the middle of the Mad River. The people were tubing on the swollen river when they got stuck on a tree that had fallen in the river. All four people were rescued safely. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
