A woman is dead after a brush fire in Millbury Camp on Saturday evening

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MILLBURY — Authorities said one woman was killed Saturday evening after a small brush fire believed to have started at a campsite.

On Monday, the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office identified the victim as Maryann Audette, 49.

The press release from the State Fire Service states the following:

At approximately 8:20 p.m. Saturday, a Massachusetts State Police trooper responded to a brush fire in the area of the Blackstone River Bikeway near State Route 146 in Millbury.

Audette was at the camp. The officer notified the Millbury Fire Department and police, and the fire was completely extinguished.

Audette was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause and manner of death will be determined by the office of the chief medical examiner.

At the time of the fire, the state was under a red flag warning that any outdoor fire could spread quickly and be difficult to extinguish due to dry and windy conditions.

The camp site is south of the Worcester-Millbury border. The bike path, which is currently open to the public, is located south of the Worcester Walmart on Tobias Boland Way.

On Monday, the fire site was wrapped in yellow tape.

Inside the yellow tape were shopping carts full of personal items, including clothes.

Garbage bags were also visible in the area cordoned off with yellow tape.

Drug paraphernalia could be seen on a table behind yellow tape.

Samantha Olney of HALO Greater Worcester, a homeless support group founded by homeless people to support homeless people who use substances and support them in the community, said she knows Audette and is devastated.

Olney wrote in an email that she cannot “emphasize enough” that homeless people should not camp alone.

Additionally, Olney called for the creation of an approved encampment in the city to provide some stability for the homeless population. Olney has previously submitted application The City Council agreed to such an encampment, but the idea was rejected in a vote.

Bushfires have been a problem across the state this past week due to drought conditions.

Wednesday, fire crews from multiple communities in central Massachusetts was battling an intense brush fire which occupied five acres in a wooded area in Holden near the border with the town of Paxton. Sutton Fire Department also responded to a bush fire that broke out near a home in a wooded area off Whitins Road.