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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
backburn .
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Examples
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"Overnight, they backburned to the north of the fire, and they've also been working with heavy plant equipment and also backburning to the south and the west area of the fire."
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Firefighters backburned near the Princes Hwy to try to contain the fire, which spread in an easterly direction late on Saturday.
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Crews backburned a perimeter around the fire and said 50 CFS staff would monitor the blaze overnight before a reassessment on Friday morning.
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Firefighters have backburned a 50-metre-wide buffer to protect nearby homes.
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