[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15 “Lab Rats.”] 9-1-1 puts its firefighters in life and death situations all the time and they’ve made it even when it’s seemed like they shouldn’t. Chimney (Kenneth Choi) survived rebar through his head. Buck (Oliver Stark) was able to return to work after getting his leg pinned under a truck. Eddie (Ryan Guzman) was buried alive and rescued himself. Bobby (Peter Krause) probably should have been pancaked in the pile-up of storage containers, vans, and even the 118’s ambulance. So, when they’re facing a super strain of Cchf (Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever), and even while Chimney’s reached out the bleeding out stage, why should we think that this time won’t be just like every other? Because it wasn’t. 9-1-1 just killed off its first major character, and it did so in the most utterly devastating, sob-inducing, hard-to-process way. This is ...