More than two years after local preservationists decided to restore Fort Lauderdale’s third firehouse, the building looks as good as it did 80 years ago. Maybe better.

On a recent Saturday, memories littered the city's Fire Station #3, during a yard sale that organizers used to raise cash for the museum’s new Children’s Safety Program. The station has since been transformed into the Fort Lauderdale Fire and Safety Museum.

“We hope to have a relationship with the county public and private high schools,” said former city commissioner John Aurelius. “We’ll be able to bring in ... about 40 kids at a time.”

If everything goes right, he said, the program should begin by next school year.

Designed by architect Francis L. Abreu in 1927, the 1,300-square-foot, eight-room station used to house up to eight firefighters, and included a rotunda, tile floors, a fireplace and a wood-beam ceiling. The museum also offers free tours from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.