We’ve known for a while the Season 8 premiere would be “brutal” and “devastating,” which pretty much made it seem like someone would be dying during the show’s big return to the fall schedule on NBC.
However, that was more guesswork than confirmed, at least until showrunner Derek Haas revealed a few more details related to the episode indicating a tragedy is on the way.
At the end of Season 7 of Chicago Fire, a large fire left the show on a huge cliffhanger when a lot of the group we’ve come to know and love were stuck in a mattress factory at the time a major fire started.