Charlotte Dearborn

Charlotte Dearborn is a fire lieutenant who was up against Jack and Andy for the Captain position.

History
Charlotte was one of the high scorers among the applicants for Captain. When she went for her practical test, she was grouped with Andy, Jack, and Cole Edmonds and each of them took a turn acting as captain as they went into a fire, put it out, and rescued a 200-pound dummy. Cole went first and immediately put the two women back to cover himself and Jack. He spoke derogatorily to both of them. When the time came to retrieve the dummy, he had himself and Jack go in, instead of sending one of the smaller women through a tighter area. Charlotte was not amused by his attitude.

Charlotte's turn was next. Charlotte sent Andy past the fire, over Andy and Jack's protest that it was against policy. Charlotte then ran through some fire herself. Andy found the dummy, but ended up trapped behind the fire. The others arrived and put out the flames. Once they were out with the dummy, Charlotte was told she broke a record. When Andy called her out on her dangerous methods, Charlotte said Andy wouldn't get the best from her team by coddling them.

During Jack's turn, they quickly extinguished the fire and then began the search for the dummy. They did two whole sweeps of the building, but didn't find the dummy, so Jack made the decision to leave without it. After exiting, he learned that there was no dummy and that was part of his test.

Andy went last and due to additional smoke coverage, she had the team crawl, staying close together and constantly talking to keep track of each others. The ceiling started creaking as they crawled and gave way over Cole, knocking him out. They dug him out and called in a mayday. They were told to get out, but Andy sent the others out with Cole and decided to continue the search for the dummy herself. Jack stayed behind with her and the two of them got the dummy while Charlotte went out with Cole.

Career
She is a fire lieutenant at Seattle Fire Department Station 12.