{"id":322949,"date":"2026-05-19T15:12:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:12:43","slug":"autopsy-reveals-cause-of-death-of-68-year-old-man-in-bernard-street-residential-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322949\/","title":{"rendered":"Autopsy reveals cause of death of 68-year-old man in Bernard Street residential fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The cause of death of a 68-year-old Bakersfield man in a <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bernard-street-fire-in-bakersfield-claims-life-of-68-year-old-resident-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bernard Street fire in January<\/a> was revealed by the Kern County coroner.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 24, 2026, Bharti Khatri was found unresponsive at around 5:48 a.m. in a home on fire in the 300 block of Bernard Street.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office said Khatri was pronounced dead in the 300 block of Bernard Street at 6:14 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy revealed that his cause of death was Inhalation of combustible products with thermal cutaneous injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Fire Department investigated the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The cause of death of a 68-year-old Bakersfield man in a Bernard Street fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-322949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}