Man Interviewed About Dublin Hotel Fire Turns Out To Be Henry Winkler

Irish TV crews rushed to the scene of a fire at a hotel in Dublin, and as they're wont to do, they grabbed some dude off the street to get his two cents on the situation. But that dude turned out to be the legendary Arthur Fonzarelli himself, Mr. Henry Winkler.

Folks staying in the Shelbourne Hotel were forced to evacuate after someone reported seeing smoke coming from one of the hotel's windows.

So, everyone had to exit the building at around 10:30 in the morning.

Winkler told news crews how it all went down.

"I thought somebody had set the alarm before we got there, like another guest. Finally, I went into another room and it was still buzzing, so I called downstairs.

"The woman said in a very calm voice, ’Yes, we're all evacuating. You must evacuate right now.' And I left."

First of all, I'm not sure if Henry Winkler has encountered some eardrum-shattering clock radios or if the Shelbourne Hotel needs to crank up their fire alarms because they shouldn't be mistaken for each other.

The clock radio makes you wake up so you don't miss a meeting. The fire alarm wakes you up so you don't get flambéd in your bed. The latter needs to be significantly louder.

Either way, the man who is often called the Nicest Man in Hollywood, was on his niceness game outside the hotel.

Winkler — who is Dublin to star as Captain Hook in a pantomime production of Peter Pan (no; for real) — talked about how much he admires firefighters, who ultimately determined that the fire was confined to one room.

"Firemen are some of my favorite human beings, firemen and firewomen," he said. "They run in when other people are running out. I think their hands deserve to be shook."

I couldn't agree more. 

Henry Winkler is a man of his word and snapped a photo with some Dublin firefighters.

Man, what a guy, that Henry Winkler. I'd love to have a Guinness with the Fonz. I'd just sit there and ask Happy Days questions all day.

Was Tom Bosley nice? He seems like he was.

Do you ever have nightmares about the Malachi Crunch? I do.

Why did they give your fictional cousin Chachi the worst catchphrase in TV history?

If someone said, "Hey, drop what you're doing and hop on the next Aer Lingus (hehe… "Lingus") flight to Dublin so you can have a Guinness with the Fonz," I would absolutely do it.