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The woman who died Wednesday night trying to save her elderly Dalmatian dog from a devastating fire in her home lived for her two pets, said the woman’s niece.

Tina Neville said she believed her aunt, Nancy Price, “would have destroyed herself knowing that her dog passed away in the fire without her.

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“I don’t think she would have been able to live with herself if she hadn’t even tried to go in,” Neville said Thursday.

Price, in her 50s, has two sons who weren’t living at the west side townhouse at 2949 Penny Drive.

“Everything was about her dogs. That was Nancy.”

The dog, named Damien, also died in the fire and was “her everything” ever since Price rescued the pooch at three-months-old some 15 years ago. A German shepherd named Buddy survived the fire.

Neville said that in recent years Damien had difficulty walking and was hard of hearing toward the end. Price would often lean in to speak to the dog.

Price gave her niece a keychain with Damien’s likeness as a recent birthday present.