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.

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’ 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 abo.