{"id":465091,"date":"2026-09-16T02:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465091\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T02:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:04:27","slug":"coroner-identifies-ridgecrest-woman-in-heat-exposure-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465091\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies Ridgecrest woman in heat exposure death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a woman who died from heat exposure as 64-year-old Kathryn Ann Slater of Ridgecrest.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s report said on June 19, 2026, at around 7:38 a.m., Slater was found dead in the 700 block of S. Allen Street in Ridgecrest.<\/p>\n<p>The report said an autopsy was conducted and the cause of death was determined to be environmental heat exposure. The manner was an accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a woman who died from heat exposure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-465091","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\/465091","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=465091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}