In retrospect, your neighbor should have called the sheriff or the fire department before contacting you. Those city folk could have been blown away. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve witnessed people smoking while putting gas in their cars. If you point out what they are doing they sometimes get angry as a result of being embarrassed. It sucks that you lost money and had to dismantle the fire pit. It wasn’t what was said but it was how it was said. They should have thanked you but they were embarrassed.