Paramedics say they are spending more time waiting on hospital tarmac than taking 999 calls.
"You can go home from a shift tonight and come back in tomorrow and see the same patient waiting in the stack, not having had an ambulance at all.The pressure on the north Wales service, she said, was caused by several factors.
"I've been coming into the hospitals during the crews' meal-break windows to allow them to have 30 minutes away from their vehicles," she said.Welsh Ambulance boss, Jason Killens, said the service was in "uncharted territory" He said: "Even though the job itself gives you great satisfaction, helping somebody and making somebody better, being here for hours on end with someone who is needy, and someone who is poorly does get you down.
He insisted the service was working hard to deal with the situation and had recruited "over a couple of hundred" new staff in the past 18 months.
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