False Fire Alarm

I was calmly uprooting dandelion taproots when I became aware of 2 men in large black trucks speeding by and then conversing at the end of my drive.
I thought that perhaps they were going to take the small file cabinet I had at the curb with a FREE sign perched atop.
Then one truck squealed into my drive with the other pulling into the neighbor's.  I paused, looked up, and said, "Did you need something?"
The elder man growled, "We got a report of a pellet stove being on fire with smoke billowing out of the basement."
"Well, I have a pellet, it's in the living room, and as far as I know everything's fine."
"You better check it."
My neighbor joined me  as we entered to house to see the stove merrily warming the living room.
"Clearly," I said to the neighbor, "The stove fired up, emitted a lot of smoke, and someone panicked.  Not unlike when you called me last fall when it was running."
We both assured the ex-fire chief that all was in order.
Glad to know that the neighbors are on alert, now it they'd only help me pull up dandelions.