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’m the head chef at a hotel, last summer our alarm system malfunctioned and started sounding. Didn’t matter it was a false alarm, we evacuated and when the fire department got to us they had the entire plans of the hotel in its own binder. Curious so i asked and they have these binders for every public building and apartment complex in their coverage district. This is in Sweden so check your local listings.

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