It was sooooo annoying.
I'm hindsight, I wonder if I'd called the fire department telling them the alarm was going off (a version of the truth) but no one was home, if they would have come by and maybe replaced the battery. Probably broken the door down in the process, but my problem would have been solved.
Story time!
I lived in a remote village of about 60 people and we were our own fire department so we had all the fire alarms set as sensitive as they would go.
When the weather would be dry (enough to create some dust) and then it would rain, the rain would displace the dust and set off the alarms. The whole village would respond with our usual fire procedure, even though we knew it was probably the dust setting off the alarm, just in case it was an actual fire.
The sensitive alarms also meant they'd go off from someone cooking/burning food. One guy liked to smoke salmon and he set off the alarm regularly.
We'd tell him if the alarm went off from him smoking salmon, he'd have to share.
We were also our own hydro power plant team and had a rota for which duo would sleep with the power outage alarm and respond to outages. One person would stay in the village with a radio and the other would head out to the small hydro plant and troubleshoot. I remember one Easter morning when i was on duty and it went off several times overnight. We could not for the life of us get it restarted so at 4am we had to wake up the village electrician.
We also were responsible for stoking the fire that heated all the houses. When it was really cold, it would need stoking every hour or two. Once when I was on duty in the dead of winter, I slept through my alarm and (as a 17 year old) had to get a fire going in the middle of a cold, snowy night so the other villagers didn't wake up cold. It was stressful to say the least.