article_snippet.sent: Senior Constable Neale McShane at the Simpson Desert in far south-west Queensland, in the midst of the notorious 2009 dust storm which swept as far as Sydney .
article_snippet.sent: Senior Constable Neale McShane recalled the wildest incident in Senior Constable Neale McShane stint, the 2010 Birdsville Races, which saw torrential rains trap 5000 people inside the small town, stretching resources paper thin.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Emergency services had to fly food into town and we ran out of cigarettes.
article_snippet.sent: The last packed was auctioned off with the proceeds going to the local hospital.
article_snippet.sent: Take that iconic red dust storm that engulfed Sydney in 2009.
article_snippet.sent: When that hit we had a surge of people needing to be rescued.
article_snippet.sent: McNeal and local park rangers at the Cooper Creek, which was flooded at the time .