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Meet the new chief! Dermot Mulroney is joining the cast of Chicago Fire Season 13 at Chief Dom Pascal. 

Pascal replaces Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker), who said goodbye at the end of season 12 to take a new job as deputy commissioner. And new photos from the Chicago Fire Season 13 premiere make it clear that he jumps right into the action.

Firefighter shielding a woman in front of a fire in the 'Chicago Fire' Season 13 premier
Dermot Mulroney as Chief Dom Pascal in the ‘Chicago Fire’ Season 13 premiere | Peter Gordon/NBC

In one photo from the premiere, “A Monster in the Field,” Pascal shields a woman outside of a burning building. In another, he looks to be having a potentially tense conversation with Herrmann (David Eigenberg). 

Meet Dom Pascal (Dermot Mulroney) in ‘Chicago Fire’ Season 13 

Pascal is an outsider in the Chicago Fire Department. He comes to 51 from the Miami FD, and his arrival “shakes everything up,” showrunner Andrea Newman told TV Insider. 

“There’s going to be changes around the firehouse,” Pascal says in a teaser for the new season.  

So, what exactly brings Pascal from Florida to the Windy City? We’ll find out when the show returns.  

“What’s transpired to get him here is revealed in the premiere,” Newman explained. 

Dom Pascal is a ‘totally different kind of leader’ 

Two man talking to each other from across a desk in 'Chicago Fire'
David Eigenberg as Christopher Herrmann and Dermot Mulroney as Dom Pascal | Peter Gordon/NBC

One thing we do know about Pascal is that his approach to managing Firehouse 51 is very different from his predecessor. 

“He’s a totally different kind of leader from Boden, who was a father figure by the time he left the house,” Newman said. Pascal “is enigmatic, he wants to peel back the layers of the firefighters to find out more about them as firefighters and people because knowledge is power to him. He’s got his eye out for people who cross the line.”

Not everyone in the firehouse embraces the change in leadership, Newman added. 

“All our guys will have different reactions to him and there will be surprises in terms of who bonds with Pascal and who doesn’t,” she said. 

Dermot Mulroney teases One Chicago debut 

Man wearing a fireman's hat walking in front of a firetruck
Dermot Mulroney as Chief Dom Pascal | Peter Gordon/NBC
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No one may be more excited for Pascal’s Chicago Fire debut than Mulroney himself. On Sept. 5, the actor took to Instagram to share a photo from set. 

​​”At work on #chicagofire @nbc back in my cheap Kentucky gas station shades,” he wrote. 

On August 28, he also shared a carousel of images taken while filming at the Chicago Cultural Center. 

“Chief Pascal reporting for duty on @chicagofire_nbc at #chicagoculturalcenter,” he captioned the post. 

“I’m thrilled to join Chicago Fire,” he said in a video posted to the One Chicago Instagram account. “[We’re] starting the season off literally with a bang … [Pascal] is a hands-on chief, and he means business.”

Chicago Fire Season 13 premieres Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 9 p.m. ET on NBC. 

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