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At approximately 5:00 a.m., a fire alarm went off in the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Ps were staying on the fourteenth floor of the hotel that night and evacuated the building by taking the stairs. Mrs. Juisti experienced shortness of breath upon reaching the ground floor and was given oxygen by the Baltimore City Fire Department. The hotel also gave her an oxygen tank to use in her room. Ps returned home that afternoon. Mrs. Juisti still experienced shortness of breath, and she also had chest pains. She went to the hospital where she was diagnosed as having a collapsed lung. The fire alarm was set off by a cleaning crew that cleaned the oven hood in the kitchen without using the exhaust fans. P sued for damages for negligence. The district court granted D's motion for summary judgment on the issue of proximate cause. Ps appealed.

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