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Micron Technology was founded in October 1978 in Boise, Idaho.Micron is one of Idaho’s largest employers with more than 5,000 employees. The company went through a series of layoffs since 2005, when it had nearly 10,000 employees in Idaho.According to the company’s website, Micron has about 20,000 employees worldwide including locations in; California, Virginia, Canada, Puerto Rico, Italy, Scotland, Israel, Paris, Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, China, India and Malaysia.Micron manufactures and markets DRAM, NAND and NOR Flash memory products, computer chips, which are used in everything from computing, networking, and server applications, to mobile, embedded, consumer, automotive, and industrial designs.According to its website, Micron Micron Technology, Inc., became a publicly held company in June 1984. In November 1990, Micron was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), where it began trading under the “MU” symbol. Effective December 30, 2009 Micron voluntarily transferred its stock exchange listing from The New York Stock Exchange to the NASDAQ Global Select Market, a market of The NASDAQ OMX Group, (NASDAQ: NDAQ) and continues to trade under the ticker symbol MU.

Wildfire Burning Near Boise's Micron Campus

Boise State Public Radio News

Published July 24, 2012 at 7:58 PM MDT

UPDATE 10:20 PM: The BLM has estimated the fire to be around 1200 acres. Spokeswoman Mallory Eils told KBSX the fire's active flames have been controlled. The fire has burned only grass and sage brush. Eils says firefighters haven't set a date and time for containment.

Original post: Firefighters from the Bureau of Land Management and the Boise Fire Department are fighting a new wildfire near Micron in southeast Boise. Mallory Eils, a spokeswoman with the BLM, says the fire started north and east of the Micron campus. It’s burned parallel to Interstate 84 and is burning towards Blacks Creek Road. No structures are currently threatened. There is no current estimate for the fire’s size.

Eils says the fire started just before 6 PM. It’s the only new fire reported today in the BLM’s Boise District. It’s too soon to say what caused the fire, though Eils says a BLM investigator is on the scene and looking into what started it.

Ground crews are getting aerial support from several helicopters and air tankers. Eils says the Boise Fire Department has structure engines standing by at a nearby rest stop if the fire burns closer to any homes or buildings.

Wildfire Burning Near Boise's Micron Campus

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