In addition to Thieriot, Arcila and Alejandro, Jordan Calloway, Jules Latimer, Diane Farr and Billy Burke are returning as main cast members. Michael Trucco, Alix West Lefler and potentially W. Tré Davis are expected to make appearances in the third season.
Leven Rambin joined the cast in a recurring guest star role as Audrey: a former fire camp inmate.
What Is the Season 3 Vision?
“I can’t tease too much. Our show is always going to be about redemption. That’s the heartbeat of our show,” Napolitano shared with Us in May 2024. “So that will continue to be true. And I talk about wish fulfillment. I think there is going to be a little bit of careful for what you wish for in season 3.”
Us revealed the official logline for the premiere, which read, “In the midst of Gabriela and Diego’s wedding, a helicopter crash ignites chaos and the team immediately gets to work putting out spot fires and helping victims.” The trailer for the episode showed Gabriela and Bode growing closer together after her wedding to Diego was interrupted.
Will the Episode Count Be Larger?
Season 1 of Fire Country had a whopping 22 episodes while the sophomore season got a shortened order. Thieriot, who serves as a star and executive producer on the project, confirmed there will be a larger episode count for season 3.
“Getting to have some more episodes allows us to arc out all those stories a little bit longer and really sort of play them out a little bit slower, which I like,” he shared with Us in May 2024. “Nothing feels rushed that way. The nice thing is [in] season 3, we’ll get to get back into that.”
He continued: “It’s the perfect time because we have so much to explore this season and going forward. So getting to have those extra episodes will be really helpful to get to map it out over a longer number of episodes.”
Where Does Bode’s Journey Go From Here?
While Bode took part in a firefighting program while incarcerated, it won’t be as easy for him to join the force now that he is out.
“Bode’s journey from free citizen to firefighter is going to be a long one. We’ve covered on the show how hard it is. There’s so many hoops and red tape to get through to get your record expunged as an inmate,” Napolitano shared with Us. “I think seeing him fight for that is fighting for himself. They become one and the same.”
Napolitano reassured fans that they shouldn’t be worried about Bode not fighting fires. “He’s going to be all up in there,” she quipped. “He’s definitely going to be firefighting curious until he’s actually able to officially hold a hose again.”
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What Does Season 3 Mean for Gabriela and Bode?
Even the actors behind Gabriela and Bode didn’t know where their romance could go after her wedding to another man.
“I think if you’re a person of integrity and a good hearted person, the universe somehow finds a way to place you where you’re meant to be — even if you’re not following in those tracks,” Arcila teased to Us in May 2024 about her thoughts on where the story could go. “But I am excited to read what they’re going to write next season. I feel like one of the audience [members] right now waiting.”
Meanwhile, Thieriot was just as unsure about whether Gabriela ultimately called off her wedding. He was confident, however, that Bode and Gabriela needed a break after going through so much leading up to their reunion.
“He knows he still has work to do. But I think that he’s finally at a place where he’s able to pause and take a breath and make decisions that are a little more thought out before he rushes into them,” Thieriot explained. “That’s something that we see in the finale too. He’s been able to be apart from her more and seeing her kills him and seeing her getting married really kills him.”
