Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Fire Country Season 4, Episode 9.It’s all hands on deck in this week’s Fire Country as the first big fire with Manny (

Kevin Alejandro) as Battalion Chief rolls to the county line. It’s the moment he’s been preparing for since he got back from his first training in Sacramento, and he’s ready to show everyone how to proactively stop Edgewater from burning. However, Manny’s leadership decisions rub a lot of the other brass on the scene the wrong way, and it’s unclear if Manny is seeing the field clearly or if he’s flying by the seat of his pants and putting everyone’s lives in danger in the process.

At the end of the episode, multiple lives are in jeopardy, and Eve’s (Jules Latimer) super green Three Rock Crew are on the frontline of the encroaching fire. To make matters worse, Landon (

Josh McDermitt) is still walking free after being questioned about his involvement in the Zabel Ridge fire and looking to make someone pay for him being a suspect. Tyler (

Connor Sherry) is stuck in an inferno with Bode (Max Thieriot) after sneaking onto the scene, which leaves Chloe (Alona Tal) unprotected as the firefighters try to put out the increasing flames. The midseason finale sets up an intense return in the new year, and many of our firefighters may never be the same after all of this.

Eve Bonds with the Young New Three Rock Crew

Things got off to a rough start between Eve and her young crew last week, but there’s no time to waste with a new incident to prepare for. Eve initially struggles with building trust between herself and the kids after she told everyone they “are not her guys.” She finds a way to relate when one of the kids cuts himself with a tool, hoping it’ll get him out of cutting line to prevent the oncoming fire. He’s scared, and Eve recognizes that.

She uses it to tell the crew about her own fears about failing as their leader and why that made her freak out in the last episode. Despite her fears, she’s not going to desert them, though.

The breakthrough comes just in time for Manny to announce that Eve and the Three Rock boys are his plan B in stopping the fire from taking out another town