Grey’s Anatomy spinoff Station 19 was canceled so late that the writer’s room had already mapped out the firefighter drama’s Season 7 storyline. “We were very surprised,” recalls showrunner Zoanne Clack, “because Disney had just moved our whole production to the Disney lot, so we figured that they were pretty invested and we would probably have a few more seasons to go. We had fleshed out a lot of what we wanted to see in the season and thought that we could tell this story on a long arc because it was such a short season and we’d tell some of those stories in Season 8.
We had to reconfigure what we could tell and what we’d have to leave on the table.” Co-showrunner Peter Paige shares that having to cut many storylines “absolutely was tough. A lot of gold we left in that there river.
” With the series end looming, Paige and Clack talked to each cast member. “They were craving resolutions for those long character journeys,” Paige says. The producers set that up with a two-part wrap-up concluding with a “beautiful” Grey’s Anatomy crossover in the series finale.
The penultimate episode focused on Station 19 — led by Capt. Andy Herrera ( Jaina Lee Ortiz ) — battling an intense conflagration heading toward Seattle. “One of the biggest [fires] we’ve ever done,” says Paige.
“We wanted to construct a finale where we got to see not only character arcs that find some resolution, but also firefighting action where they would be challenged to ca.
