National Guard crews were in Irondequoit on Friday to set up aquadams and build sandbag walls in efforts to protect homes from flooding and rising waters.

The crew worked diligently on Bay Shore Boulevard to build sand bag walls around several homes, located inches away from rising waters. There was special attention for homeowners already experiencing flooding in their basements.

The sandbag wall stretched out to roughly 450 feet, in order to successfully restrain the water — which is no easy task.

Officials say it took two days to build the sand bags up to 275 feet. The hills and high water levels slowed progress. However, the hardworking team completed the mission in high spirits.

“We’ve been walking up and down sandbags, one or two at a time, all the way down to the lake," said Staff Sgt. Tommy Trejo. "We have several engineers that have actually talked this out. They were like, ‘how come we don’t build a slide to make our jobs easier?’ Then we made a slide, and now we have operational sandbags down there,” said Trejo.

Sgt. Trejo said that the National Guard's work is all about helping our community, and most of the volunteers even took time off from their civilian jobs to help out.