{"id":504459,"date":"2026-10-22T17:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504459\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:56:13","slug":"coroner-identifies-82-year-old-bakersfield-woman-who-died-from-heat-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504459\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies 82-year-old Bakersfield woman who died from heat exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a woman who died due to heat in August as 82-year-old Carole Elaine Morris of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s report said on August 1, 2026, Morris was found outside in the 2600 block of Mount Vernon Avenue. The report said she was taken to Bakersfield Memorial, where she later died on August 11.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s report said an autopsy was conducted, and the cause of death was determined to be hyperthermia due to 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 due to heat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-504459","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\/504459","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=504459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}