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A calm young boy saved a Mackay family from an inferno that razed their home in a midnight fire.
Jason Phipps said his son Bailey heard the smoke alarms sounding at their Tay St home about midnight Thursday and came in to their bedroom to wake them from the lull of the airconditioning.
"I just grabbed me wallet and phone, I went out the front and rang triple-0," Mr Phipps said.
"I had boxers, no shirts, no shoes - bare feet.
"The missus had her pyjamas on. None of us had anything.
"By that time the back of the house was up in flames.