Fire Country is no stranger to turning to Station 19 for actors. After Brett Tucker recurred during the fourth season, Station 42 is about to see another member of Station 19 join in the fun. Jay Hayden has landed a recurring role.
According to TV Insider, Hayden will make his Fire Country debut during Episode 4, airing Oct. 30, 2026. He’ll play Mason, a man who comes from a prominent family in Edgewater, who was once friends with Bode (Max Thieriot) and Jake (Jordan Calloway). As a former pro baseball player, he’s been away from home for some time, but he returns to convert his family’s old paper mill into a new business, and it’s clear there’s some sort of hidden agenda.
Does he really want to reconnect with old friends, or is he around in a way that will hurt the town of Edgewater? It also looks like he may be there to get up to mischief with the town’s newest firefighter, CJ (Olivia Thirlby).
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Hayden is best known for playing Travis Montgomery on Station 19 for all seven seasons. From the beginning of the series, Montgomery brought the pain of losing his firefighter husband, Michael, to the series. It took time to get all the details, but the death happened due to a bad call by Michael’s captain.
Shortly after Station 19’s cancellation, Hayden switched out the hose for a gun, as he took on the role of Agent Tyler Booth on FBI: International. He was introduced as a former partner and close friend of Jesse Lee Soffer’s Wes Mitchell, and there appeared to be a build-up to making him a permanent member of the team had the show not been canceled.
It’s not yet clear how many episodes of Fire Country Season 5 Hayden will be in. For now, we know that he’ll debut in Episode 4 and that he will still be around by Episode 6, as that’s the episode TV Insider’s images come from.