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As her father Eugene Bose is loaded into an ambulance Lisa Hotwagner gathers herself while talking to firefighters about what happened in an early morning fire at her house in the 3700 block of 153rd Street in Midlothian, Illinois, Friday, May 25, 2012. Neighbor Belinda Dailey (left) saw smoke coming from the building and broke windows and doors in order to get Eugene Bose and his grandson Dominic Hotwagner, 8, out of the house. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Belinda Dailey (left) and a paramedic check on the condition of Dailey's neighbor Dominic Hotwagner, 8, after he was pulled through a broken window at the scene of an early morning house fire in the 3700 block of 153rd Street in Midlothian, Illinois, Friday, May 25, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Eugene Bose holds his dog Tinkerbell close as firefighters continue to work an early morning fire at his house in the 3700 block of 153rd Street in Midlothian, Illinois, Friday, May 25, 2012. Bose and his sleeping garndson were home at the time of the kitchen fire, but were saved by an alert neighbor. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Firefighters enter the smoke-filled house fire in the 3700 block of 153rd Street in Midlothian, Illinois, Friday, May 25, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
With blood-stained pants Belinda Dailey dabs at her cut finger she suffered while breaking windows out to save neighbors at the scene of an early morning house fire in the 3700 block of 153rd Street in Midlothian, Illinois, Friday, May 25, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Midlothian Fire Department Deputy Chief Dave Mager brings out Tinkerbell the dog to owner Eugene Bose at the scene of an early morning house fire in the 3700 block of 153rd Street in Midlothian, Illinois, Friday, May 25, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Light smoke can be seen escaping from a second-floor window as firefighters enter the scene of a house fire in the 3700 block of 153rd Street in Midlothian, Illinois, Friday, May 25, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Firefighters photograph the broken windows where a neighbor and mother of an 8-year-old boy were able to pull him out from a house fire in the 3700 block of 153rd Street in Midlothian, Illinois, Friday, May 25, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Belinda Dailey apparently is a cut above your average neighbor. So said the bloodstained pants she wore — and the actions she took — after she spotted smoke Friday morning coming from a home across the street in her Midlothian neighborhood. Dailey sprang into action. She …