cause of death released:

"Anne Heche’s manner of death has been ruled an accident.

The 53-year-old actress died due to inhalation of smoke and thermal injuries, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner.

A “sternal fracture due to blunt trauma” — often occurring when an accident victim’s chest hits the steering wheel — was another “significant condition” after she crashed her car into a Los Angeles home on Aug. 5."

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One weird thing in that video. They had her completely wrapped up in that sheet when they rolled her on the stretcher out to the ambulance, it was wrapped around even her head. I transported thousands of them and we never wrapped a patient up like that.