-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, PU8CDjDwRjssVKg8AlwmfxJCoTk9sM1xycY9snWWvYb6nWIRInECzsLZs6bSgEG0 mKXIpKZCTyYVZJx6QqBwSg== 0001193125-10-077411.txt : 20100614 0001193125-10-077411.hdr.sgml : 20100614 20100406154754 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-10-077411 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 FILED AS OF DATE: 20100406 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: RURAL/METRO CORP /DE/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000906326 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: LOCAL & SUBURBAN TRANSIT & INTERURBAN HWY PASSENGER TRAINS [4100] IRS NUMBER: 860746929 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0630 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 9221 EAST VIA DE VENTURA CITY: SCOTTSDALE STATE: AZ ZIP: 85258 BUSINESS PHONE: 4806063886 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 9221 EAST VIA DE VENTURA CITY: SCOTTSDALE STATE: AZ ZIP: 85258 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: RURAL METRO CORP /DE/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19930528 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Correspondence Letter
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SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY L.L.P.

 

Two Renaissance Square

40 North Central Avenue, Suite 2700

Phoenix, AZ 85004-4498

 

Office: +1.602.528.4000

Fax: +1.602.253.8129

Direct: +1.602.528.4084

jcrabb@ssd.com

March 24, 2010

VIA FACSIMILE (703) 813-6963

John Dana Brown

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

Mail Stop 3561

450 Fifth Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

  Re: Rural/Metro Corporation

Form 10-K for fiscal year ended June 30, 2009

Filed September 9, 2009

File No. 000-22056

Dear Mr. Brown:

We are counsel to Rural/Metro Corporation (“RMC”), and I am writing in reference to your letter to RMC dated March 11, 2010 regarding RMC’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 (File No. 000-22056). As indicated in my voicemail message to you earlier today, RMC is in the process of preparing its response and expects to have that process completed by April 9, 2010. Accordingly, we expect to be submitting a response on RMC’s behalf on or before such date.

If there are any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at (602) 528-4084.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ Joseph M. Crabb
Joseph M. Crabb

JMC/rlc

 

cc: Christopher E. Kevane (Rural/Metro Corporation)
     Matthew M. Holman
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