Forty ambulance crews were treating patients outside emergency departments as Sky News joined a night shift in Belfast.
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service lost a record 34% of its operational capacity last month while patients waited outside hospitals.
"You hear calls on the channel for category one calls that need covered and we need crews and we've maybe sat at an ED for 10 hours, 11 hours for some of our shifts."John Walsh has been a paramedic for 19 years and used to treat 10 patients in a 12-hour shift.He said:"The first patient we had on the stretcher for over six hours waiting outside a hospital... and the second patient we had for four hours before getting relieved by another crew so that we could actually get home.
We were interviewing the chief executive of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service when a 999 call to the control room vividly illustrated the dilemma. It was a reported road traffic accident - someone feared trapped in a burning vehicle, and they needed an ambulance immediately.
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