Regarding South King Fire and Rescue Chief Al Church’s complaint about Mark Freitas’s supposedly age-related comment.

“Maybe the Chief should retire” could have just been a too-polite alternative to “let’s fire the chief” and get someone in here who can run this department in a fiscally sound manner.

Could this be why the chief overreacted and threw away more taxpayer money in legal fees for this imagined age discrimination fiasco?

Gary Adams, Federal Way