Police, fire, EMS may move to joint headquarters in south Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- City leaders are working to acquire a building off of South Mopac Expressway and Barton Skyway to house headquarters for Austin's police, fire and EMS departments."The official term that gets used is that these buildings are suboptimal," said Mayor Kirk Watson about the existing headquarters buildings. "Well, Kirk Watson would refer to them as crummy, pathetic and dirt sorry. They're buildings that need to be replaced."Chiefs with each public safety department addressed the stru