‘Chicago Fire’ Original Cast Member Joe Miñoso Leaving In Season 15

Firehouse 51 is dropping a veteran firefighter. Joe Miñoso, who has been on Chicago Fire since Season 1, is departing the NBC drama collection from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television. He is about to look in a handful of episodes in the beginning of the upcoming fifteenth season to wrap up the arc of his character, Joe Cruz.

Miñoso began on Chicago Fire as a visitor star within the pilot and appeared in just about each episode of the primary season as a recurring earlier than getting promoted to a collection common in the beginning of Season 2. He was considered one of 4 unique solid members left alongside Taylor Kinney and David Eigenberg, who had been collection regulars since Day One, and Christian Stolte, who additionally started as a recurring within the first season.

The departure of Miñoso comes as Chicago Fire es adding BMF star Da’Vinchi as a regular series for Season 15, taking part in a brand new firefighter. Ace Deadline reported in Maythe present’s leads, Kinney and Miranda Rae Mayo, have signed new offers to proceed on the present.

The new season additionally brings a brand new showrunner, Victor Teran, following Andrea Newman’s exit after 14 seasons.

In the Season 14 finale, former Chief Pascal (Dermott Mulroney), who had been absent since Episode 14, returns to debate with Severide (Kinney) his skilled choices: Chief of Firehouse 51 or Chief of Fire Investigation? As Severe is about to share his choice, an emergency name interrupts his announcement.

As far as Joe Cruz is worried, he and his spouse introduced final season that they have been having a child. In the Season 14 finale, Joe is sitting together with his colleagues over breakfast when he admits that he would like to welcome a 3rd boy into the Cruz household as a result of “girls are scary.”

Later on, Joe’s spouse is rushed to the hospital, panicked that one thing is improper with the child. She has some slight bleeding, which a nurse at Gaffney explains was attributable to a small blood vessel getting irritated. But that is not even the largest information — the Cruz household is anticipating twins!

The finale ends on a cliffhanger when 51 solutions an emergency name {that a} storage facility is on hearth. Several major Chicago Fire characters head inside the place they’re coping with problems like zero visibility. All of a sudden, the crew realizes the roof is about to break down. They try to get out of the fireplace, because the crew outdoors, together with Stella (Mayo), Pascal (Mulroney), and Herrmann (Eigenberg), pivots plans into important emergency mode. Fire is escaping outdoors the constructing, and the crew calls Mayday over the radios. The finest and brightest at 51 are all in peril — and followers have to attend for Season 15 to search out out who survives.