{"id":438722,"date":"2026-08-20T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438722\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:44:09","slug":"32-year-old-bakersfield-man-dies-of-dehydration-tied-to-heat-exposure-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438722\/","title":{"rendered":"32-year-old Bakersfield man dies of dehydration tied to heat exposure identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a man who died from dehydration due to heat exposure as 32-year-old Dion Anthony Adams of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/coroner-identifies-california-city-man-who-died-after-heat-exposure-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Coroner identifies California City man who died after heat exposure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report said on June 24, Adams arrived at Mercy Hospital from the 1200 block of 19th Street.<\/p>\n<p>The report said he was later pronounced dead the same day at around 11:03 a.m. at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy was conducted, and his cause of death was determined to be dehydration due to heat exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a man who died from dehydration due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-438722","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\/438722","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=438722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}