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The coroner's office is reporting that a Ridgecrest woman died of heat-related issues in Inyokern on Friday.
76-year-old Helen Burns was found dead near Highway 395; the coroner's office says she died from a combination of the heat and of cardiovascular disease.
Weather records show the high temperature in the area that day was 107 degrees.
