County IDs woman, pinpoints her cause of death following August residential fire in northeast Bakersfield

Oct. 31—A woman found dead in August after a fire burned her home in northeast Bakersfield has been identified along with the cause of her death, according to a news release Tuesday from the Kern County Sheriff's Office. Kathleen Anne Stanier, 79, died by accident from inhalation of combustion products at 4:55 a.m. Aug. 2, the release said. It noted the fire struck almost an hour earlier at …