By Greg Felt My wife said it and Salida Fire Chief Doug Bess agreed with her. They had grown up together in Salida and neither had ever looked out the window at a wildfire. In that regard, I’d heard many recent comments from community members about “our luck” – the good being the manner in which Chaffee County had, for years, escaped significant wildfire; the bad being the Decker Fire burning on both sides of Methodist Mountain and spreading down the Sangres. The comments ascribed a random quality to recent events that I found misleading. Mountain Zone Fire Management Officer ...