Ravi Panikkar
Ravi Panikkar is a dromedary camel and the newest firefighter at ZFD Station 118. He is introduced in the W-Series in "The Call", half a step behind a crew that already knows where it is going.
Background
Ravi is new enough at the 118 that he turns up on a quiet shift hoping for something to do, and tall enough that the conduit above the apparatus has already taught him to duck. His helmet still looks new.
Personality
He stops because the others stop and moves when they move, and he looks for a job to do. In a bunker with nothing to fight he tears open a case of water and puts it where everyone can reach it.
Series History
W-Series
In "The Call", Ravi swings up into the engine for a vehicle accident on Rainforest Canopy Road just as the Signal CRIMSON tones come through the station speakers, and goes down into the reinforced basement with Chimney, Hen, Eddie and Buck on an order nobody explains. His beacon is the last of the five to go to continuous broadcast. When the shelter-in-place alert lands and the crew reach for their phones, he sets out the water. At the stand-down he is at the hooks before Buck is up the stairs, with Eddie's coat out and waiting.
Key Relationships
Chimney Han
His captain, who gives him the same order as everyone else and no more explanation than he has himself.
Trivia
- Ravi Panikkar takes his name from Ravi Panikkar, the probationary firefighter who joins the 118 in the television series 9-1-1.