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/stoicstorm76]

You did nothing wrong. As firefighters, we get called for a lot of things that, upon investigation, turn out to be nothing. It's our job to respond to each and every one of those calls appropriately -- that includes conducting ourselves politely and professionally. There's even a name for this kind of call, it's a "good intent" call, because you had a legitimate concern. It was right of you not to disable the smoke detector, an alarm that's giving a false alarms is broken and needs to be fixed or replaced.