List of Chicago Fire characters
This is a list of fictional characters in the television series Chicago Fire. The article deals with the series' main, recurring, and minor characters.
Main characters
Overview
;NotesImage:Chicago Fire Department Engine 18 as fictional Engine 51, people leaving from northeast side.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|People leaving from the northeast bay side of actual Chicago Fire Department Engine 18, which doubles as Firehouse 51 in ''Chicago Fire''
Matthew Casey
Kelly Severide
Kelly Severide is the lieutenant at Firehouse 51 and the officer in charge of Squad 3.In season 2, Severide is targeted by an arsonist twice before realizing that the arsonist is targeting firefighters. He makes the connection that the arsonist is also a firefighter, most likely Kevin Hadley, but they have no proof, until they eventually catch him in the act and he is arrested. In the episode "A Power Move", Severide spots his father Benny hugging a young woman and believes he is having an affair. Kelly meets Benny who tells him that he will succeed Boden as the new chief of fire house 51. In the episode "No Regrets", Severide confronts the young woman, Katie Nolan, who reveals Benny is her father, making her Severide's younger half-sister. Severide lashes out at Benny, who acknowledges that Severide is right about him and apologizes for not being there for him as a father. Benny decides not to take the job from Boden, and encourages Severide to get to know his half-sister. Kelly goes to find Katie and formally meets his sister for the first time.
In season 3, he struggles with the death of his best friend, Leslie Shay and is not being himself and goes out drinking every night, leaving everyone worried about him. This is until he goes to Vegas for a weekend and meets Brittany Baker, a graphic artist from Florida. Severide returns from Vegas, smiling and happy, and informs the house that he got married in Vegas. They think he is kidding at first, but soon realize he is serious.
In season 4, Severide is demoted from his Lieutenant rank due to accusations of him being a poor leader because of the number of firefighters that have either resigned or been dismissed, despite their valid reasons for leaving. Chief Boden does everything he can to get his position back and tells him to go to a meeting where his leadership skills can be improved. Severide is constantly undermined by Dallas Patterson, his replacement. In the episode "Short and Fat", Severide is promoted again to Lieutenant after Patterson's promotion to Battalion Chief. In the finale, "Superhero", he begins dating Stella Kidd.
In season 6, Stella moves in with Kelly. She tries to be cool with the idea of him dating, but she's still jealous when he sleeps with Brett's friend Hope Jacquinot.
In the season 9 premiere "Rattle Second City", the squad answer a call. Severide is nearly caught in the fire but it saved when Stella comes to his aid. In the episode "A White-Knuckle Panic", Severide and Stella become engaged and in the season 9 finale "No Survivors", they tell the firehouse that they are engaged.
In the season 10 finale "The Magnificent City of Chicago", Severide and Stella get married.
In season 11 episode "Run Like Hell", Severide has the opportunity to work on an arson investigation and gain some rigorous training. In the season 11 finale "Red Waterfall", Stella leaves Chicago to bring her husband back.
In the season 12 finale "Never Say Goodbye", Severide tells Stella that he wants them to start having children, a revelation that Stella wasn't expecting and leaves her in shock. Later he finds out that rookie firefighter, Jack Damon, is his younger paternal half-brother.
;Crossover appearances
- Chicago P.D.: "Chin Check"
- Chicago P.D.: "At Least It's Justice"
- Chicago P.D.: "8:30 PM"
- Chicago P.D.: "Justice"
- Chicago P.D.: "Don't Bury This Case"
- Chicago P.D.: "Infection, Part III"
- Chicago P.D.: "Burden of Truth"
Gabriela Dawson
Off-duty, she runs Molly's, a small bar jointly owned by her, Otis, and Herrmann. The bar is also popular with her brother's colleagues from the 21st District and the staff at Chicago Medical Center, whom the paramedics regularly come into contact with. She is usually in charge of the food and beverage aspects, while Otis and Herrmann deal with the business and marketing aspects.
The younger sister of Detective Antonio Dawson, a main character in spin-offs Chicago P.D. and Chicago Justice, Gabby is well known for being able to hold her own in a largely male-dominated occupation and an all-male firehouse; she and Shay are the only women at 51 until [|Brett] is assigned to Ambulance 61 in season 3.
Dawson shares a close friendship with longtime colleague Matthew Casey even though they are each in relationships with different people. Later, she and new candidate Peter Mills bond over their mutual love for cooking and begin a relationship in secret. When their relationship is brought to light, Casey seems to be jealous and pulls rank to keep them apart at work. She later discovers that Boden had an affair with Mills's mother, and she keeps this knowledge from him. When he finds out that she has known about it and that she still has feelings for Casey, he ends their relationship, but they remain friends. She has a brief relationship with Detective Jay Halstead at the beginning of season 2, but they mutually part ways. Following Casey's near-death accident in the season 2 episode "Not Like This", Dawson and Casey start a very serious romantic relationship, and Casey proposes to her. She later is a candidate at the Fire Academy. She fails her physical exam by several seconds, after injuring her ankle. In season 3, she has passed the Fire Academy. However, her relationship with Casey poses a problem due to fraternization rules, and she is initially assigned to Firehouse 105 in Austin under Casey's nemesis Lieutenant Welch. Welch is against her assignment to his truck company due to his misogyny. He fills the spot, and she is assigned as the candidate on Truck 81, under Herrmann's supervision. During her first few weeks on the job, Casey is extra protective of her, much to Herrmann's frustration, but she eventually settles in. In season 4, she suffers a miscarriage. Her return to duty coincides with Chief Riddle's quest to oust and make an example of Chief Boden so that he can make Fire Commissioner.
In season 5, Dawson decides to foster Louie, the child of one of the victims of a fire that Truck 81 attended, and the decision puts her at odds with Casey, who has doubts about having a child in their lives. Casey moves back in with her again and accepts Louie in their "family". After a close call involving both her and Casey, Dawson begins to consider the fact that if both of them remain at Truck 81, there is a possibility Louie could be orphaned. She decides to return to Ambulance 61 after the spot opens up when Borelli returns to the truck. She and Casey marry in the 100th episode as part of their plans to speed up Louie's adoption. However, Louie's biological father, who has up until then been listed as "unknown", shows up at both their apartment and the firehouse demanding to see his son. Louie eventually moves in with his biological father and paternal relatives.
Dawson and Casey reconnect after Dawson almost loses him in the fire that ends season 5. Dawson meets a girl named Bria in a fire. She finds out her father is addicted to meds and tries to help her, after not talking to Casey about it and instead talking to Severide. Casey finds out what they are up to and is upset. Dawson decides to let Casey help with Bria.
Dawson's old fling, Jake Cordova, comes to the firehouse since Otis is hurt, but things get crazy with Dawson. She doesn't tell Casey right away, which makes him mad when he finds out. When Otis is allowed back on the truck, everything goes back to normal. Dawson gets a call from Bria asking to help her with some "girl problems". She helps Bria get ready for prom. Casey decides they can ride in the truck, so with Stella driving, Bria and her date ride to prom in the truck. While watching the truck pull away, Dawson tells Casey she wants to start trying again. After trying for a while, Dawson wants to get to the doctor. Finding out Dawson has an aneurysm that could burst with pregnancy, Casey and Dawson stop trying. Dawson tells Casey she wants to take the risk, but Casey says no, not wanting to lose her. He brings up adoption, which sets Dawson off since she doesn't want to go through the same thing they did with Louie.
In the last episode, Dawson is offered a job in Puerto Rico, which she turns down at the beginning of the episode. During the episode, Brett and Dawson fight on one of the calls, and then Dawson and Casey fight when they get home. She departs Chicago after season 6 to help with relief work in Puerto Rico. In the Season 7 premiere, she briefly returns to Chicago and says goodbye to Casey. She returned briefly in the Season 8 episode "Best Friend Magic".
Sylvie Brett
Paramedic Sylvie Brett joins Ambulance 61 following Leslie Shay's death. Initially, 51 is not enthusiastic about her arrival; most of the crew had known and worked with Shay for a long time and are still getting over her death. Despite a frosty beginning working together, Dawson becomes Brett's first friend in Chicago, and the others warm up to her soon after. She works alongside Peter Mills when he replaces Dawson after she transfers to Truck 81 as a candidate. Mills is not cleared for duty after an inner ear injury, which damaged his balance following the explosion where Shay died, so he is assigned to work on Ambulance 61. The two become good friends and partners while working together; as a Christmas gift, he gives her a wiggling hula-girl that sits on the rig's dashboard to this day. Like the rest of 51, Sylvie is upset when Mills chooses to leave for North Carolina with his family near the end of Season 3 and during his goodbye party, she breaks down in tears and hugs him goodbye. In late season 3, Mills gets replaced by Jessica "Chili" Chilton as the Paramedic In Charge ; in mid season 4, Brett becomes PIC after Chili is fired and goes to rehab. Brett has appeared on the spin-off Chicago P.D. as the first responder on scene, crossing paths with members of the Intelligence Unit, and on Chicago Med and Chicago Justice.Brett is a small-Midwestern-town girl from Indiana, where she grew up in a farm with her parents and a little brother. She frequented the church and even sang in the choir. She reveals to Dawson that she was adopted and never knew her birth parents. In her first episode, she self-proclaims she is a "runaway bride" who goes "up I-65 to Chicago" to escape her ex-fiancée Harrison after their engagement fell apart. However, a few episodes later her husband to-be finds her working at 51 and comes to visit her. He apologizes in front of everyone for leaving her before their marriage, revealing that he's the one who had cold feet. Nonetheless, she gets back together with him briefly until she realizes he has a very overbearing nature. He psychologically tries to dominate her by telling her how she should feel and where she should work. She tells him she's happy in Chicago but he tells her she isn't. She breaks up with him again and he leaves. Initially she has difficulty adjusting to city life due to her naivete, as shown by the fact that she leaves cash out on the table with the windows open and rents an apartment in a neighborhood known for crime because the rent is cheap. She also has a hard time handling some of the tough calls early on, but learns to deal with it and adapts quickly. She shares a new apartment with [|Gabby Dawson] when the latter's relationship with Matthew Casey cools. Afterwards, she moves in with Cruz and Otis.
When Severide returns from a long furlough after Shay's death and first sees Brett going out to Ambulance 61, he does a double take, noticing the resemblance between her and Shay. While he is going through his grief process over losing Shay, he tries to hang out with her while deeply intoxicated, yet when sober and on the job, he treats her more coolly, a behavior that visibly throws her. After the two get closer while working together to help a single mom and her kid, Severide invites her to go to Vegas with him. She says she would love to, but doesn't know if that's a great idea so he leaves without her. This apparent mutual pull they feel for each other then ceases after he marries Brittany. Sylvie joins the best-rated Zumba class she finds on Yelp in her neighborhood and finds that the instructor is none other than Cruz. They agree to keep it a secret as long as she can teach him how to cook since he's opening Molly's 2 and she has skills that she no longer gets to use, but she ends up telling Casey due to his misunderstanding of her relationship with Cruz. She asks him to keep it a secret, but he ends up telling Dawson, who then tells Hermann, who then tells Mouch, who then tells everyone else. Joe then asks Sylvie out and she rejects him. However, she accepts some time later and they start dating. After a few months, the two break up once they realize they're not in love and remain good friends. At this point, Otis seems to realize he has feelings for her and considers asking her out. Later in Season 4 he asks her to the CFD gala and after initially rejecting him she agrees and they go together. He keeps meaning to ask her out again, but other people or things get in the way and in the end they remain just friends.
Brett appears to have a romantic interest in Officer Sean Roman from Chicago P.D. as they share an encounter in the season 3 finale of Chicago Fire. She reveals her feelings for Jimmy Borelli, when she finds out that Jimmy is leaving, she confesses her feelings for him, which she later tries to cover up when she finds out he is staying in the CFD and working alongside her as her new partner.
During a call in Season 4, Brett gets attached to a baby she delivers to a gunshot victim mother who dies in the ambulance. She visits the baby in the hospital several times until Chief Boden finds out and tells her to let it go and so does Chili. However, she still goes back, where she meets Dr. Charles. He tells her secretly to check the father's details while the duty nurse is out. She goes to see him and tells him about the son but he ignores her. However, when she comes back to see the baby yet again, the dad is there and thanks her. She and Dawson also help host a wedding at Firehouse 51, where she sings.
In season 5, both Chili and Jimmy leave as paramedics, leaving Dawson to take their spot and work alongside Brett once more. During a case, Gabby's older brother Antonio Dawson shows up, and Sylvie instantly develops a liking for him. After some consideration, she asks him out but he refuses, saying his breakup with his ex-wife is still on his mind and he doesn't want her mixed up with this. She says she doesn't mind and they start going out. In the end of "An Agent of the Machine", Sylvie tries harder to impress Antonio's son Diego, who likes to play chess and whom she doesn't connect with. Joe teaches her the basics and Antonio asks her later to take care of Diego when he's called in to work. Antonio's ex-wife, Laura, shows up at the firehouse and takes Diego away, telling Sylvie to mind her own business and stay away from her family. This upsets Sylvie and she tells Antonio she doesn't want to be in the middle of his fight with his ex-wife. He says he warned her about this before but she replies that she didn't expect to be directly confronted by Laura. He lashes out and she breaks up with him. Antonio later shows up at Sylvie's door and apologizes, and even though she understands she tells him he's not ready and it's best if they stay apart. She later tries to get her mind off Antonio by doing extra exercise at the firehouse, trying to find online makeup classes, changing her look and even learning German. Dawson feels bad and tries setting her up with people Casey knows, but Casey doesn't want to get involved in her love life. In "A Man's Legacy", while in the hospital, she sees Antonio with his sister after visiting his father and talks with him. In "Foul is Fair", it was revealed that Brett breaks up with Antonio again, as they insist they should keep things casual but she fears if they keep seeing each other one of them will get hurt eventually. At the end of "Hiding Not Seeking", she has a one-night stand with Antonio in his car, then the two start seeing each other again. In "Looking for a Lifeline", Brett confides in Dawson, who suggests that Brett might be pregnant. She takes a pregnancy test, but is disappointed when it is negative, making her realize in "The Chance to Forgive" that she wants to spend her life with Antonio. She wants to talk to him about them making a real shot at a relationship, but before she can do so, finds out that he has been set up on a blind date. After the discovery, she clears her locker of anything to do with Antonio, declaring to Dawson that she is a new person.
In "It Wasn't Enough", her High School friend Hope Jacquinot comes for a visit and stirs up trouble, first by seeking out Severide's attention, despite Brett's warning that it is a bad idea to get involved with him as he is recovering from the death of his girlfriend. Then Hopes gets an office position working at the bullpen and Connie warns Brett that there are rumors that Hope had stolen money from her last employer. Hope says it was a misunderstanding following a bad break-up. Then she purposefully misplaces Stella Kidd's payment only so she can appear to come out as the hero in the situation, gaining Stella's favor. Hope forges a signature to get Kidd transferred to CFD's Public Relations Department to get her out of Firehouse 51 and away from Severide. Casey and Chief Boden find out, and she gets fired. Afterwards, Sylvie tells her to go back to Fowlerton and that she doesn't want anything to do with her anymore. Brett is very apologetic with her colleagues at 51 for bringing Hope into their lives and all the mess that followed, but people don't hold her responsible nor any grudges over what happened.
During the season 6 episode "Slamigan", Brett assists Cruz in creating a new firefighting tool since she grew up on a farm and has experience welding. This brings them closer, and it appears Cruz develops feelings for her once more. He spends the rest of season 6 battling his feelings for Brett, which gets her aggravated at his overprotectiveness in a few instances. In the season 6 finale, he considers confessing his feelings for her, but once she declares how much she cherishes his friendship he decides to keep this to himself and move on.
In "The Grand Gesture", Brett is distraught over a stabbing victim who dies in front of her after being stabbed by a mentally unstable man. She is seen crying in her car after the call. She eventually explodes when Dawson also becomes angry and yells at her when she grabs scissors instead of gauze during a call. She is upset at Dawson for being treated this way, and they have a fight right before Dawson leaves to work at relief efforts in Puerto Rico.
In "A Closer Eye", Brett turns away every paramedic she is partnered with, believing Dawson will come back. She is then partnered with Emily Foster by Chief Boden, who tells her to make it work. At first, the chemistry between the two is a little rocky. In "Going to War", she confronts Casey about letting Dawson leave. He replies that there was nothing anyone else could have done. He also gives her a goodbye gift from her recent ex-partner: a photo of the pair, on the back of which is written: “Love you, partner, and always will." In that same episode, she shows Foster an intubating technique on a severely burned victim, which impresses the new paramedic. Brett says her old partner was a master at it and taught her well; it's the very same technique that Dawson taught her during the first episode of Season 3. She also learns that Foster was a surgical resident at Lakeshore Hospital and got kicked out of the program for cheating on her medical boards evaluation, as she was going through a rough patch in her personal life during her mother's sudden illness and death. After a rocky start, they form a good partnership at work and become good friends too, with Brett even defending Foster and berating a doctor at Lakeshore who "ghosts" her on a date.
In season 7, she dates Kyle Sheffield, a chaplain with the CFD and friend of Foster. They break up in "Fault in Him", with Kyle saying their relationship has led to firefighters not being willing to confide in him after Brett asks him to talk to Casey about a bad call he experienced. She has a hard time moving on and sympathizes with Casey on the subject of tough breakups. She then attempts to help him out by setting him up with her spin class instructor, Olivia, in "Try Like Hell". After a game night with their friends, Olivia says Matt is great, but that Brett should be the one dating him as she and Matt are "meant for each other". Later, Brett confides this to Foster and Kidd, who seem to agree with Olivia's assessment, leaving Sylvie confused about her feelings for Casey. In "I'm Not Leaving You", Kyle comes to 51 and proposes to Sylvie in front of everyone after he tells her he's moving to Indiana. Brett accepts his proposal and tries to make it work with him, but misses her life in Chicago and isn't happy in her new quiet life with Kyle, so they break up.
Brett returns to 51 in the third episode of season 8 after leaving Fowlerton and resumes working on Ambulance 61 with Foster. Her feelings for Casey still seem confusing, and she gets overly defensive when he assumes she is dating a guy who meets her for drinks at Molly's. She also meets her birth mother who wants to make a connection with her before giving birth to her second child. Sylvie spends time with her mother Julie until the latter dies giving birth. The baby survives and Sylvie becomes a half-sister to a baby girl name Amelia. Although her stepfather initially does not want to take care of her, Sylvie is able to persuade him to keep his daughter to honor his wife.
In Season 9, Sylvie is assigned a new partner Gianna Mackey and they become fast friends. Sylvie's status with Casey also evolves, with the two sharing a kiss. However, Sylvie fears his former relationship with Dawson will be a problem and calls it off before things go further. Her relationship with Casey becomes awkward for a period of time, but they continue to support each other. When Casey goes through a health scare, Sylvie is there to support him, which results in her breaking up with her boyfriend at the time, Greg Grainger. After Casey confesses his love to Sylvie, she too admits to him that she loves him, and they finally consummate their relationship in the season 9 finale.
In season 10, Casey moves to Oregon to look after Andrew Darden's kids. He maintains a long-distance relationship with Sylvie until the start of season 11, they break up due to the distance and Sylvie feels they are growing apart. In season 11, Sylvie adopts a baby girl named Julia. In the season 11 finale "Red Waterfall" Casey returns to Chicago and proposes to Sylvie. They officially marry in season 12 episode 6 "Port in the Storm", then Sylvie moves to Oregon permanently to live with Casey, their adopted daughter Julia and the Darden boys.