Chimney Han

Chimney Han
Biographical Information
Full Name
Chimney Han
Species
Red panda
Gender
Male
Status
Alive
Professional Information
Occupation
Captain, Station 118
Affiliation
Personal Information
Spouse
Series Information
First Appearance
Last Appearance
Episode Count
6 (S01E10, S02E07, S05E16, S05E21, S05E22, S05E24)
Contents

Chimney Han is a red panda and the current captain of Station 118, having assumed command after the death of Bobby Nash. He is married to Maddie Han, a ZFD dispatcher. Bobby gave Chimney a life-saving antidote, sacrificing himself so Chimney could survive.

Background

Chimney Han rose through the ranks of Station 118 from paramedic/firefighter to captain. His promotion carries enormous weight: it exists because Bobby Nash gave him the antidote that saved his life, at the cost of Bobby's own. Chimney does not take this lightly. He leads Station 118 with the knowledge that his captaincy was purchased by someone else's sacrifice.

His marriage to Maddie Han โ€” a same-species red panda pairing โ€” represents one of the series' conventional crossover couples. Both Chimney and Maddie have survived trauma, and their relationship is built on the understanding that comes from shared suffering.

Personality

Chimney is warm, resilient, and quietly determined. He uses humor to navigate difficult situations โ€” a trait he shares with Nick Wilde โ€” but underneath the levity is a mammal who has survived more than most and carries that weight with grace. His promotion to captain forced him to shift from being the crew's comic relief to being their anchor, a transition he navigates with increasing confidence.

He is deeply loyal to Bobby's memory, leading Station 118 in a way that honors the captain who saved his life.

Series Appearances

Season 1: Station 118 (S01E10)

Chimney works the Riverside Apartments call alongside Hen at the engine's side compartments, a red panda smaller than the hose couplers he is balancing, his paws finding each piece of gear before his eyes do. At the Canyonlands office fire later that day Bobby sends the two of them up to the third floor to assist the evacuation already in progress, and Chimney goes with the backup oxygen canister slung across his chest at the angle his frame requires. They meet Nick and Luther coming down at the landing between floors, where Nick reports the hallway clearing and the offices past the smoke line still needing eyes. Chimney takes in the armful of scorched folders against Nick's chest and asks, with as much incredulity as the stairwell will hold, whether he stopped to gather paperwork in a burning building. Nick tells him it is evidence, very important evidence, and that it has been a weird day.

At the firehouse that evening he finds Pawbert out in the truck bay, having stepped away from a room holding more kindness than he could absorb at once. Chimney leans against the engine and waits to be noticed before he speaks, then tells him about Maddie: the first time she came to the station she could not stay in a room with more than three mammals, and it took months before she stopped checking the exits. He calls her his partner, says only that she survived someone, and stops there, and Pawbert reads what the trimmed sentence is protecting. She wants to meet him, Chimney says, because she thinks she can help, and when Pawbert asks why she would want to, the answer is that someone once helped her and that is how it works. Then he leaves the choice where it belongs: "She's on the balcony. If you want."

Season 2: Collateral (S02E07)

Chimney works the substation explosion with Hen, the two of them running a triage station at the edge of the collapse zone while Bobby commands the east wing. When Buck and Eddie bring out a possum technician burned down one side, Chimney takes her onto a stretcher, gets her name, and keeps her talking while he threads an IV and starts stabilization, Hen dressing the burns beside him. He is the one carrying the tally, and gives it to Hen when she asks: twelve survivors, eight dead, with Buck and Eddie still sweeping the interior.

At Zootopia General Hospital afterward he comes down the corridor to find Maddie sitting with Pawbert and stops to take in what he is looking at before he says anything โ€” the frightened lynx he talked to in the truck bay a year earlier is plainly someone else now. He passes on Bobby's call for a debrief, asks Pawbert how he is holding up, and lets the answer stand without making anything of it. Then he tells Maddie to take her time and goes.

Season 5: Inferno (S05E16)

By Season 5, Chimney has been promoted to captain following Bobby's death. He leads Station 118 during the Rainforest District fire, commanding the crew through the chaos. When Nick asks about Bobby, Chimney's face falls โ€” grief that still runs deep even as he leads. His captaincy is a visible reminder of Bobby's sacrifice: every order he gives, every life he saves, extends the legacy of the mammal who chose Chimney's survival over his own.

Season 5: Final Position (S05E21)

Chimney and the Station 118 crew are staged at the rear during the assault on The Root โ€” medical units ready for the casualties everyone knows are coming. Chimney, Eddie, Buck, and Hen stand ready with ZFD ambulances and emergency response teams.

Season 5: Complacency (S05E22)

Chimney rides on the gurney carrying Luther into Zootopia General Hospital, perched near Luther's feet to manage the IV line โ€” his smaller frame an advantage in maintaining the saline bag's stability while the stretcher moves at speed through the emergency bay.

Season 5: Always (S05E24)

Chimney attends the double wedding alongside Maddie, holding paws with his wife as they arrive. The two red pandas โ€” now Captain and dispatcher โ€” have their fur recently groomed to gleaming for the celebration.

W-Series

In "Nighthowler", Chimney brings the Station 118 rig onto a Meadowlands field twelve hours after a modified Nighthowler compound turned Luther feral and the city failed to bring him in. He is first off the truck with the ZSI case, and he splits the crew before he reaches the grass: Hen and Eddie onto the patient, Buck onto the stretcher. Hen's read is that the compound's twelve-hour regression window has already closed. Chimney tells her to administer anyway, and it works. Luther's vitals come down under the crew's paws while Pawbert is still holding him against the grass.

In "The Call" the Signal CRIMSON tones come through the station speakers on a Saturday night as the engine is about to roll on a vehicle accident, and he takes his crew into the reinforced basement on an order that says relocate and nothing about why. He holds the captain's face over a crew with their beacons on continuous broadcast, tries Maddie's line once and gets dead air, and leaves the phone in his pocket after that while she runs the worst shift of her career. When the stand-down comes his phone rings, and the voice on the other end is alive; then he takes the 118 back out to the calls that have been holding.

Key Relationships

Maddie Han

Chimney's wife. Their same-species red panda relationship is built on mutual understanding of trauma and recovery. Maddie's history as a trauma survivor and Chimney's journey through loss create a partnership defined by compassion and resilience.

Bobby Nash

Bobby gave Chimney the antidote that saved his life. This sacrifice is the defining event of Chimney's career โ€” his captaincy is both an honor and a responsibility that he carries every day. He leads Station 118 not just as Bobby's successor but as a living testament to Bobby's values.

Athena Grant

As Bobby's widow, Athena holds a particular significance for Chimney. Their relationship is complicated by the knowledge that Bobby chose Chimney's life over his own โ€” a choice that Athena does not resent but that Chimney processes with ongoing gratitude and guilt.