The morning Kendall Richard left her home for the last time, she had eight minutes.
She grabbed two dogs, two cats, and six boxes of whatever her hands could reach. She did not get the artwork off the walls. She did not get the children’s drawings. She got out.
Behind her, the wildfire that swept through Pleasants Valley in 2020 took the rest, including the iris farm she and her husband Mark had spent 14 years building from a backyard hobby into something people drove hours to see.
“Everything we owned on the planet burned up,” Mark said…