{"id":402770,"date":"2026-07-17T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402770\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:18:08","slug":"bakersfield-man-32-died-of-fentanyl-meth-overdose-hyperthermia-possible-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402770\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield man, 32, died of fentanyl, meth overdose; hyperthermia possible: Coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 32-year-old Bakersfield man died last month from an accidental drug overdose, with possible hyperthermia as a contributing factor, according to the Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Hector Erik Rivera Jr. died June 13, 2026, in the 2000 block of 28th Street, the coroner\u2019s office said. Bakersfield police found him two days later, on June 15, just before 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy determined Rivera\u2019s cause of death was the toxic effects of fentanyl and methamphetamine, with possible hyperthermia contributing, the coroner\u2019s office said. The manner of death was ruled an accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 32-year-old Bakersfield man died last month from an accidental drug overdose, with possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-402770","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\/402770","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=402770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}