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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When an artist draws a house on paper, a Fireman always looks at it and will tell the artist that his house is beautiful, but there are a few things that they need to make it safe.

The artist will make a change, this is called a revision. That same fireman will look at it again, and say that it is perfect! and put a gold star on the drawing, giving permission to the artist to build it.

But the Artist doesn’t know how to put two sticks together, or even build a house, so he asks his friend General, to build it for him.

When General is about 95% finished building the Artist’s house, General will call his friend Fireman to look at make sure he is happy with what they built.

Fireman will look at the Artist’s and the General’s work and say that they followed Fireman’s suggestions perfectly. Because Fireman can be a very sensitive person, and to do his job well, he wants to make sure all buildings are built in similar ways, with the same number of tools for him to do his job and keep those who live there, safe.

When the Fireman puts a gold star on the building, He will leave that copy in the building, just in case something goes wrong. And that’s how the Fireman, Artist, and General, all work together to build tall buildings.

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