General Schwartz said the Air Force had concluded that the problems stemmed from a malfunctioning pressure vest that restricted pilots' breathing, as well as narrow oxygen hoses that were either leaking or not delivering enough air.
For more than a year, Air Force officials have struggled to find a cause of the problem, and last month said they believed that a pressure vest was restricting pilots' breathing and that narrow oxygen hoses were leaking or not delivering enough air.
Firefighters arrived promptly, the tenants said, but were hampered in their efforts because the building did not have sprinklers and the first firefighters had to carry hose up six narrow flights of stairs.
THE three long, narrow pieces of aluminum being hosed down outside David Boyajian's studio in New Fairfield were instantly recognizable — they were about eight feet long, with the distinct corrugations of the exterior cladding that once formed the multistory gothic arches of the World Trade Center towers.
"They'd say, 'I'm a fireman, and my uncle used to work here.' " Sometimes he invited them in and showed them the old brass fittings and the narrow space where the hemp hoses were hung to dry after a fire.
Whether the narrow skirts or the boot-leg hose, which created a triangle at the ankle, were in patent leather or in plastic, the effect was of creations from that laboratory of ideas Pierre Cardin introduced half a century ago.
On a recent afternoon, a crop duster buzzed overhead, and workers wearing tanks fitted with spray hoses trudged along a narrow road that separates what remains of the village from endless rows of squat palms.
Using fire hoses instead of roses, Mark must narrow down a crop of women ranging from sexy to psychotic on the parody web series hosted by Michael Ian Black (doing his best vapid reality show host impression, of course).
They were forced to run backwards down the unlit narrow staircase, fearful of tripping over the fire hoses, which had been flat before but were now full of water.
