Rural Metro
Rural/Metro Corporation is a for-profit emergency services organization — the second-largest in the country — providing emergency medical transportation, non-emergency general medical transportation to healthcare facilities and health management organizations, fire protection services, including community, airport, industrial and wildland specialties, and emergency training services to private and commercial enterprise throughout the United States. Currently Rural/Metro serves more than 400 communities nationwide. Rural/Metro was founded and is still based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Rural/Metro employs over 8,000 people and answers 1.5 million calls for service yearly. Rural/Metro also owns Southwest Ambulance of Arizona.
Effective October 2011, Warburg Pincus acquired Rural/Metro.
Read more about Rural Metro: History, Emergency Medical Services, Fire Protection Services
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“What life is best?
Courts are but only superficial schools
To dandle fools:
The rural parts are turned into a den
Of savage men:
And where ‘s a city from all vice so free,
But may be termed the worst of all the three?”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)