NORMAL ambulance services were on the brink of collapse after officers voted by 3-1 to follow their colleagues into industrial action.
The officers, who manned emergency control centres and run the ambulance stations, rejected a 6.5 per cent pay offer and were set to ban overtime and rest day working.
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