Chapter 266: Section 12.    Fire alarm, engine or apparatus; injury during fire to prevent alarm or extinction of fire.
	Whoever,  during the burning of a building or other property,  wilfully and maliciously  cuts or removes a bell rope or a wire or conduit connected with a fire alarm signal system  or injures or disables any fire alarm signal box      or any part of such system in the vicinity of such building or property,      or otherwise prevents an alarm being given,  or whoever cuts, injures or destroys an engine, hose or other fire apparatus, in said vicinity,  or otherwise  wilfully and maliciously prevents or obstructs the extinction of a fire  shall be punished by  imprisonment in the state prison for not more than seven years  or in jail for not more than two and one half years  or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.