MILLBURY — An outdoor fire that claimed a woman’s life in Millbury Saturday night remains under investigation, according to a statement from State Fire Marshal Jon Davine. Meanwhile, crews in Dunstable, Wilmington and Salem, Mass. were also fighting fires over the weekend.

At about 8:20 pm on Oct, 26, a State Police trooper responded to a small brush fire in the area of the Blackstone River Bikeway near Route 146. Once onscene, the trooper located the victim in an encampment, where the fire is believed to have originated. He notified the Fire Department, which fully extinguished the fire, as well as the Police Department.

The victim, an adult, was pronounced deceased at the scene. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause and manner of her death and conduct a formal identification procedure.

The path remains open to the public. The Associated Press reported that the woman was found at an outdoor encampment, where the fire was thought to have started.

The origin and cause of the fire are being investigated by Millbury Fire and Police, the State Police assigned to the offices of the State Fire Marshal and the Worcester District Attorney.

Fire crews also responded to a barn fire in Dunstable on Saturday night at about 10:23 p.m., according to a statement from the Dunstable Fire Department. All occupants of the nearby home were safely evacuated.

According to the Associated Press, Salem, Mass. fire crews were still battling a brush fire on Sunday that had started in a wooded area near a Walmart.

The office of State Fire Marshal Jon Davine said that the Statewide Fire Mobilization Plan (SFMP) was activated to support Salem Fire Department on Sunday. The SFMP coordinates firefighting resources when local mutual aid has been or will be exhausted. By bringing in personnel and apparatus from a different region, it ensures that all communities retain sufficient resources to meet their day-to-day needs.

Wilmington crews were fighting brush fires on Saturday, as were crews in Southern New Hampshire as well, the Associated Press reported.

Massachusetts was under a Red Flag warning on Saturday, meaning that any outdoor fire could spread quickly and become difficult to extinguish. Massachusetts continued to experience elevated outdoor fire risk on Sunday as well.The National Weather Service warned that the combination of dryness and winds, with gusts up to 35 mph (56 kilometers per hour) was expected to cause significant fire weather conditions, leading to the potential for fires to grow quickly in dead and dry vegetation.

The office of State Fire Marshal John Davine contributed to this report.