Good of you to post this to show what a moron Devine is. People probably read her headline and believed it. She doesn't even know that those fires were rated a Forest Fire Danger Index of 100. For those playing at home that's fire conditions so severe that the weather is the main driver and fuel loads are insignificant.
There’s only one way to make bushfires less powerful: take out the stuff that burns
Relatively little has changed since the Black Saturday tragedy. It is as though Australia suffers amnesia when it comes to bushfire preparedness.
theconversation.com
As former fire chiefs recently pointed out, of all factors driving a fire’s severity – temperature, wind speed, topography, fuel moisture and fuel load – fuel load is the only one humans can influence.