This is the 87th presentation that I or one of my graduate students and technicians have given at this meeting over the last thirty years. And it is the hardest because I can’t use my own voice. I joined the faculty of the Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin -Madison as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 1970. I had one personal goal. That was to help Wisconsin farmers optimize their weed management. I was 24 years old and knew I could conquer any challenge. Although my Ph.D. research had been a laboratory project, I knew from start that I would have a big field program. I just didn’t dream of how big it would become. At that time I also made a commitment to always obtain crop yield data from every field study (most other weed scientists were only rating weed control). I had arrived at the right time, at the early stages of the herbicide revolution. After my arrival, every experimental herbicide being developed for alfalfa, corn, dry beans, lupines, peas, soybeans and sweet corn came through my program. I wrote the first section 18 label for the state, and worked with IR-4 to register herbicides for minor crops. I don’t know how many herbicides that came through my program? There were hundreds! But looking back now, much of that research was a wasted effort. About four or five years after each new herbicide was registered, a species shift would occur or herbicide-resistant weeds would develop minimizing the benefit. These are fires mentioned in the title of this presentation. I have spent much of my career identifying the most serious weed management fires confronting Wisconsin farmers, and then I tried to put them out.