On May 20, 2017, the plaintiff, a 14-year-old high school freshman student, was on a three-day school trip at Lake Skinner, in Riverside County. While students participating in a solar boat competition sat around a campfire the night before the event, a chemistry teacher, Ryan Brown, conducted an impromptu science experiment. As part of the experiment, the teacher put hand sanitizer on his hands and the hands of a high school student who was kneeling next to the 14-year-old freshman. The teacher then lit the alcohol-based sanitizer on their hands to demonstrate fire properties. However, drops of the lit sanitizer dropped from the hand of the male student onto the lap of the 14-year-old female student, burning her thighs. The 14-year-old student, acting by and through her guardian ad litem, sued the teacher and the teacher’s employer, Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District. The student alleged that the teacher and the school district were negligent in the supervision of the students. Plaintiff’s counsel contended that the chemistry teacher should have never performed the demonstration and that the teacher performed an unsafe demonstration in an unsafe environment without any safety precautions. The teacher’s counsel asserted that the drops of the lit sanitizer dropped from the hand of the male student onto the lap of the 14-year-old female student and that the incident was an unfortunate accident., The 14-year-old student was taken to a hospital, where she was treated for second-degree burns to her inner thighs. She subsequently spent weeks in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. Since the lit sanitizer fell in splotches, the 14-year-old student was left with scarring in splotches on her inner thighs. She claimed that as a result of being lit on fire and the pain she endured from the burns, she suffers from emotional distress. She alleged that as a result, she has had to deal with her fears whenever she is around flammable items, such as whenever she is around someone pumping gas or cooking. The student also alleged that she has had to emotionally deal with her scars. The 14-year-old student sought recovery for past and future emotional pain and suffering.