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                             RURAL/METRO CORPORATION
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                        ACCIPITER LIFE SCIENCES FUND, LP
                       ACCIPITER LIFE SCIENCES FUND II, LP
                  ACCIPITER LIFE SCIENCES FUND (OFFSHORE), LTD.
                ACCIPITER LIFE SCIENCES FUND II (OFFSHORE), LTD.
                    ACCIPITER LIFE SCIENCES FUND II (QP), LP
                              CANDENS CAPITAL, LLC
                        ACCIPITER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
                                  GABE HOFFMAN
                                 NICOLE VIGLUCCI
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      On October 30, 2006, Accipiter Life Sciences Fund, LP ("Accipiter"),
together with the other participants, made a definitive filing with the
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") of a proxy statement and accompanying
GOLD proxy card to be used to solicit votes for the election of its slate of
director nominees at the 2006 annual meeting of stockholders scheduled to be
held December 1, 2006 (the "2006 Annual Meeting") of Rural/Metro Corporation, a
Delaware corporation (the "Company").

Item 1: The following news article was published on November 20, 2006 by The
Arizona Republic:

RURAL/METRO IN BOARD BATTLE

HEDGE FUND SEEKS TO PUT 2 IN CHARGE, POSSIBLY SELL FIRM
JODIE SNYDER
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 20, 2006 12:00 AM

A New York hedge fund wants to put two of its own on Rural/Metro Corp.'s board,
with the idea of selling the Scottsdale-based emergency services company as one
of its options.

Accipiter Life Sciences, a division of Accipiter Capital Management, owns 7.7
percent of the stock of the company, which provides fire and ambulance services.
It is the company's fourth-largest institutional investor.

Accipiter wants shareholders to replace Rural/Metro's chair and co-vice chair
with an Accipiter partner and employee.

Rural/Metro has a seven-member board with staggered terms. Votes will be
announced at Rural/Metro's annual meeting Dec. 1.

Jack Brucker, Rural/Metro's CEO, said the company is taking the proxy fight
seriously enough for him to go to Boston and New York last week to talk with
other large institutional shareholders.

Accipiter, which has held Rural/Metro stock since July 2005, says the ambulance
company needs to increase shareholder value, even if it means selling the
company.

Rural/Metro officials have fired back, pointing out that Accipiter owns about 10
percent of Emergency Medical Services Corp., a Colorado-based competitor.

"It is an obvious conflict of interest," Brucker said.

Gabe Hoffman, Accipiter partner and one of the board nominees, said Accipiter's
shares don't include voting stock.

"Accipiter has absolutely no premeditated agenda with respect to the different
alternatives to creating shareholder value," he said.

As part of its campaign, Accipiter also wants the company to eliminate its
poison-pill provisions and other anti-takeover measures. Those provisions have
insulated board members and made them less accountable to shareholders,
Accipiter argues.

The hedge fund's other complaints include:


o FINANCIAL INFORMATION: The Rural/Metro board doesn't provide benchmarks or
other ways to judge the company's performance, Accipiter said.

In response, Rural/Metro says companies are unduly penalized for not meeting
certain marks and is publishing qualitative analysis rather than financial
projections.


o SHELF REGISTRATION: In February, Rural/Metro filed a notice that it may issue
more stock to help pay down debt. That is keeping the stock price artificially
low, Accipiter said.

Rural/Metro officials say they will only issue the shares at a time when it
won't hurt existing shareholders.

The company's plan is to continue honing operations and paying off its debt.

It has paid $28 million since March 2005.

For small individual shareholders, the fight came out of the blue.




Bruce Ramsey of Seattle said he was caught off guard by the dueling proxy
statements that he found in his mailbox this month.

Ramsey, who started investing in Rural/Metro less than a year ago, said he wants
to know more information about both sides. Rural/Metro didn't put anything on
their Web site about it, and there's not much information available about
Accipiter, he said.

Accipiter's reputation is growing as an activist shareholder group.

In March, it criticized LifePoint, a Tennessee-based hospital chain, for its
buyout of a hospital system and a proposed deal to buy five rural hospitals in
Virginia and West Virginia.

Accipiter, which held less than 2 percent of LifePoint's stock, tried to
nominate a slate of three candidates to the company's board, but LifePoint said
it missed the deadline for nominations.

Accipiter went to court to get on the ballot but was denied.