Chicago Fire will air its 13th season when the series returns to NBC in a few weeks. While the characters have been through various ups and downs in their careers, fans have been wondering if Lieutenant Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) will ever get promoted to Captain.
Showrunner Andrea Newman recently addressed fan concerns, telling TV Line that the character is focused on other things for now. “He’s got his focus on the thing he is obsessed with, which is arson and OFI, in addition to squad, which he loves,” she explained. “There’s a lot of politics the higher you go up in rank, and Severide has no interest in that. He’s a get-your-hands-dirty kind of guy. So arson is still very much on the forefront of his mind, the possibilities of moving to OFI are at the forefront of his mind, and all of that comes up. He’s dealing with all of that this season.”
While Severide’s work life story arc will remain constant, Season 13 will see a new Chief in charge of Firehouse 51 after Eamonn Walker (who played Wallace Boden) left the series at the end of Season 12. His successor is said to be an original character named Dom Pascal, who is starting his career with the CFD after previously serving as a fire chief in Miami, Florida. The character, who is yet to be cast, is described as “a cheerful person who works well under pressure, and whose leadership style differs from Boden’s. He and his wife are estranged.”
