Firefighter told me I shouldn't have called.

[u/PhilosopherFull819]

The smoke detector was going off from the car port underneath the garage apartments behind the 4plex I live in. I walked outside and saw no smoke or fire and found the detector. I mulled over reaching up and disabling it myself but I opted to err on the side of caution and report it. A truck pulled up minutes later and I showed the guys what I saw. The tallest one reached up and pulled it off and took out the battery. Another one got angry and said that I should "grow up" and "feel embarrassed" for calling. To which I replied I didn't want to turn off the alarm without confirming there was no danger that I couldn't see myself and thanked them and told them to have a nice day and they left. I imaging he was stressed and tired but can't help feeling like I did something wrong.

[u/Bulawa]

No harm done. Better a hundred false positives than one flase negative.

There is a point to be made that the low battery alarm and the actual alarm usually sound very different. But the fact that nobody teaches these things is a fairly general problem. And if it went off on technical falut, but giving an actual alarm, then ther is absolutely nothing you should have done differently.

[u/PhilosopherFull819 → u/Bulawa]

It was definitely not the low battery beep but rather the loud repeating 3 beeps.

[u/Impressive_Change593 → u/PhilosopherFull819]

oh yeah you did the right thing

[u/Mnmsaregood → u/Bulawa]

Harm could have been done if there was actually an emergency

[u/Bulawa → u/Mnmsaregood]

You mean somewhere else, at the same time?

there are so many variations on this that it's about 50:50 if the second alarm would be responded to faster or slower.