Opie Searls Jr., a former Pataskala Village Council member and chief of the Pataskala Fire Department, died Friday 11/10/2006. He was 80.  He served more than 27 years -- 11 as chief -- on the Pataskala Fire Department and spent time as president of the Licking County Firefighters Association.  To show West Licking Joint Fire District's appreciation for Searls' work, the department carried Searls' casket aboard a 1921 American LaFrance fire truck during a funeral procession Tuesday.