Chicago Fire Season 8 premiere: Who dies during the factory fire?

Firehouse 51 loses one of its own in the Chicago Fire Season 8 premiere. Who wouldn’t make it out of the mattress factory fire alive? Here’s your answer.

Caution: This post contains spoilers from Chicago Fire Season 8, Episode 1, titled “Sacred Ground.”

You had your tissues ready for Chicago Fire Season 8, Episode 1, right? Considering Derek Haas warned us that there would be a death, I hope you did! The episode is going to leave some of you angry, but it will also certainly up the stakes of the rest of the season.

There was a major death—one I didn’t expect at all—during the Chicago Fire Season 8 premiere. Firehouse 51 said goodbye to one of their own after the factory fire.

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Who did we say goodbye to? Otis! Yes, our favorite Truck driver was killed offer. Realizing there was going to be an explosion, the firefighters ran for one of the doors where some of the innocent people had been waiting. It would hold against the blast.

Sadly, Otis didn’t make it to the door in time. The explosion caught Otis and he slammed into the door, closing it before he could get in. It took a while for anyone to even find him at first! Cruz was the one to hear the alarm go off and find his best friend.

If that wasn’t hard enough, we saw all the burns on Otis’ chest. At the hospital, we didn’t even need to hear the words that he wouldn’t make it through. Boden’s grave look told everyone that Otis wouldn’t pull through.

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Cruz was at Otis’ bedside as he died, allowing Otis to utter one last phrase: “brat, ya vsegda budu s toboy.”

What would it mean? Cruz didn’t want to look it up, afraid that it was something that indicated Otis was in pain. That wasn’t something Cruz wanted Otis’ last words to be. He did tell Boden the phrase, though, and it was Boden who looked it up.

“Brother, I will always be with you.”

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Honestly, if you weren’t crying up to this point (I held it together up until this exact moment), you’ll have broken down just as Cruz did. Even in death, Otis made it very clear that he and Cruz were brothers. Otis isn’t going anywhere, just like we still remember Shay years later.

And yes, you’ll likely be angry. Otis was in the poster for Chicago Fire Season 8. I don’t think any of us expected that death. But once you get past the anger (it’s an understandable sign of grief) then you’ll see that this has raised the stakes again for the show.

In 2018, I asked that Chicago Fire stop with these intense situations and then find a miraculous way to save everyone. As much as I don’t want to see actors lose their jobs and I don’t want to lose characters I like, sometimes we need these character deaths. This was one of those times.

Haas and his team were willing to remind us that firefighting is dangerous work. These men and women put their lives on the line, and this time it was Otis’ turn.

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What did you think of the Chicago Fire Season 8 premiere? Where you ready for Otis’ death? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Chicago Fire Season 8 airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on NBC.

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