Place your fence square to the table and parallel to the blade, and no
other position. Any blade, high or low quality, has every other tooth
angled opposite the one next in line. That angling of the teeth allows
for any clearance needed when sawing your lumber.

Yes, your lumber was trying to follow the line of cut your blade was
creating/had created, and you were trying to force the lumber to follow
the fence line. That's why you had the burn marks.

Sonny