Chris Kindelspire, a communications person for Grundy County, was asked to travel to Dubai to speak at a communications conference on public safety for the Middle East.

Kindelspire, director of electronic operations for the county and a captain for the Morris Fire Protection & Ambulance District, spent the first week of May in Dubai, an emirate of the United Arab Emirates.

The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) global conference was called "The Middle East Link to Global Public Safety." This was the second year for the conference in Dubai, but it is the first time Kindelspire has attended.