Calcutta, Dec. 20 :    Calcutta, Dec. 20:  Fire struck Calcutta and Howrah once again on Wednesday. Making a mockery of the state fire services department's elaborate plans, a plastic godown and adjoining houses were gutted at Tala on Wednesday evening. Three other fires broke out at the State Bank of India headquarters on Strand Road, at Howrah Jute Mill and in an oil furnace at Netajigarh, in Howrah. At Tala, in north Calcutta, the rusty fire tenders were hard put to reach their destination and the water pipes had sprung leaks. The fire started in a plastic factory-cum-godown-cum shop at 85 B.T.Road and spread to an adjacent five-storey residential building and another rubber factory. Till Wednesday night, two firemen and another man were injured. They were taken to R.G. Kar Hospital. Tala Bridge and a portion of B.T.Road were closed to traffic. Another fire broke out in a portion of State Bank of India's head office on Strand Road. Four fire tenders and the bank's own fire-fighting equipment were pressed into service. The blaze broke out while workers were welding the cables of the air-conditioning plant room on the building's fifth floor. Three rooms of the AC plant were gutted. Police have started a case against Voltas, the agency that set up the air-conditioning plant. In Howrah, two fires broke out on Wednesday. According to fire brigade sources, the godown of Howrah Jute Mill caught fire around 10 am. Firemen fought the blaze for nearly two hours. At Netajigarh in Howrah, where the fire of an oil furnace in a factory suddenly became uncontrollable and started spreading. Two fire tenders doused it.