Could Backburning have helped with the victorian bushfires?

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Back-burning pre season use to be a common practice to prevent bushfires. Due to a lot of reasons, including politics in regards to the effects on animals this practice is not as common these days. When 200 plus people are killed in bushfires, is it still a viable option to continue not backburning due to these reasons. Or does backburning not have an effect to prevent fires.
 
The firefighters gave up backburning because people kept lighting fires behind them. It is only being done in areas that can definitely be prevented
 
The firefighters gave up backburning because people kept lighting fires behind them. It is only being done in areas that can definitely be prevented
 
I would think, with fires of this scale it may have helped a little, but it wouldn't have drastically altered the outcome. All the bigger trees still would have burned, and the leaves that fell after the back burning.
 
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