Max Thiériot‘s Bode Leone is no longer the only firefighter flying by the seat of his pants in Edgewater now that Jared PadaleckiCamden Casey’s came to town.

Warning: Spoilers below from Fire Country season 3, episode 5.

Friday November 15 episode of Land of Fireviewers got a taste of who Camden (Padalecki) is when he showed up to the Smokies wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers jersey, shorts and flip-flops.

“It was intentional,” Thieriot, who plays Bode in addition to being the co-creator of the series, exclusively told the outlet. Us every week on Wednesday, November 13, from The Wardrobe in Camden, Southern California. “(We) see the contrast between the stereotypical SoCal firefighter and the NorCal firefighter.”

The actor – who said Camden was written for his longtime friend Padalecki – noted that while they all have the same job – fighting fires – Camden is not like the others from the Edgewater crew Bode grew up with.

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Thieriot, 36, called Camden “a square peg in a round hole,” making it clear from day one that there is an unspoken rivalry between the North and the South — a rivalry made clear by his allegiance to the Dodgers and his cohort’s love for the North. The San Francisco Giants, California.

“I always joke North Cal is like the Wranglers and Ben Davis shirts and SoCal is like tank tops and flip flops,” Thieriot said with a laugh, noting that it’s “Giants and Dodgers.” It’s the rivalry.

Camden may root for the wrong baseball team, but he’s a firefighter through and through. In his first scene in Smokies, Camden hits one guy with his flip-flops and throws salt and pepper in another’s eyes during a bar fight after the men try to pick a fight with Bode.

Moments later, he realizes that he is Bode’s new training officer. Viewers quickly discover that Camden and Bode have many similarities.

“They both have the same instincts and a bit of that wild side. They’re both ready to jump into the fire in different ways,” Thieriot said of both men. “They have this mutual respect and understanding of each other. They see each other a little better than everyone does it.”

While Bode and Camden feed off each other you have to take big risks — Camden allows Bode to climb on top of a crashed plane to save the passengers even though it’s dangerous — not everyone in Bode’s life agrees with the new guy’s tactics.

“He constantly ruffles everyone’s feathers, including Jake,” Thieriot said. We of Camden, noting that Bode’s best friend and fire captain, Jake Crawford (Jordan Calloway) is worried about the reckless side of his new boss.

Thieriot explained: “It’s work and it’s also personal for Jake. There are a lot of different layers.

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He also teased that throughout Padalecki’s three-episode arc, fans will see Camden and Bode “butt heads a little bit too,” noting, “It’s not always going to be easy.”

In time, viewers will also get to see how Camden became a firefighter as he becomes “an important part in Bode’s training” in his own career.

“At the end of this kind of arc, the two of them will have a lasting impact on each other, which I think is the one thing Camden didn’t expect,” Thieriot added.

Land of Fire airs on CBS Fridays at 9 p.m. ET.