A Moira man escaped injury after neighbors who saw his house burning pounded on his door to awaken him Monday morning. Richard Gardner said he had been sleeping when he heard the banging on his door shortly after 10 a.m. He and his two dogs were able to escape the burning building unharmed, but he said was unable to find his cat in the thick smoke that filled the two-story house on State Route 95 about a half-mile north of the intersection with U.S. Route 11. It was unknown if the pet had escaped the building Monday morning. The smoke also prevented him from retrieving many personal items, including his glasses and a newly filled prescription, he said. Moira Fire Chief Shawn Niles said the front half of the house was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived on the scene and the fire “got into the attic in a hurry.”