Eli5: How so firemen rapidly know the layout of large buildings in places like NYC during a large fire or emergency?

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Edit: Thanks for the folks that are in adjacent areas that got back to me and were kind, I was just curious as a laymen New Yorker.

UPDATE: One of my friends got back to me I guess they have blueprints and do drills and do drills and shit and that I’m not allowed to know the rest – whatever bitch tits, comments basically stated that

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I used to work IT for a small city (25k people) and supported the police and fire departments. My state has a public safety coop that helps provide various software and systems for public safety entities and one of them was a system that lets you pre load in building plans and make notes. All the fire trucks have laptops on them and could pull up the maps and info on sites they made and could review them on the way or on site during an emergency. They would also coordinate with some of the larger places in the city like the large industrial manufacturers to go over safety procedures and get yours like some others have mentioned.

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