The American Red Cross Home Fire Campaign is taking place in Lehighton, Carbon County and across the country to reduce deaths and injuries from home fires by 25 percent.

The Red Cross will be going through Lehighton starting at 2 p.m. Sunday to install smoke alarms in homes that need them and teach people about what they can do now to be prepared should a fire break out in their home. The Red Cross will be focusing on an area between North Second and North Third streets between Carbon and Ochre streets.The Lehighton Fire Department and other community partners will be joining the Red Cross. Anyone interested in volunteering can meet at the fire department at 132 S. Third St. at 1 p.m.Also this week, Red Cross volunteers will be going door-to-door in Lehighton on Friday between 3 and 5 p.m. to let people know about the program."Installing smoke alarms cuts the risk of someone dying from a home fire in half, so we're joining with groups from across our community to install smoke alarms," said Michele Baehr, Executive Director for the American Red Cross Pocono Mountains Chapter. "We also will be teaching people how to be safe should a fire occur in their home."This is the second time the campaign has come to Lehighton. The first was last November.Last year, the American Red Cross of the Pocono Mountains responded to more than 80 disasters, the majority of which were home fires. The Red Cross provided emergency assistance to nearly 300 people after those fires.