(a) A person commits the crime of reckless burning or exploding when he knowingly starts a fire or causes an explosion and thereby recklessly damages or destroys a building or an inhabitable structure of another.

    (b) Reckless burning or exploding is a class A misdemeanor.

(Code 1964, § 7.770)

     State law reference(s)--Similar provisions, RSMo. § 569.060.