Burton Fire District Capt. Ralph Neiderhiser celebrated his 80th birthday Tuesday. Sixty five of those years have been spent in fire service.
“If you do what you enjoy, it ain’t (like) going to work,” he said Wednesday.
Neiderhiser began his career as a volunteer with his father in Pennsylvania when he was 16, he said. He moved to the Lowcountry in 1985, started as a firefighter on Hilton Head Island and hasn’t left the area or the fire service since, he said. Neiderhiser joined Burton Fire District in 2005, according to the release.