Legendary Raiders wide receiver Cliff Branch lost his home in the Santa Rosa fires that have victimized so many recently, but he made sure he wasn’t going to lose his most prized possessions.

After getting a call from his attorney letting him know that he needed to evacuate, Branch opened his front door to a fire marshal instructing him to do the same thing.

“First thing I did was grab my three Super Bowl rings, my money, and I left,” Branch said Tuesday to the Oakland Tribune’s Jerry McDonald.

As he was exiting his neighborhood Branch told McDonald that he saw a neighbor’s house, six doors down, that was ablaze and it was then that he knew his home was not going to make it.

Branch’s home was essentially a historical landmark for the Raiders, with the Super Bowl champion amassing so much team history in his home that it even made the team’s owner take a step back in awe.

“It was like a museum. (Raiders owner) Mark Davis said, `Man you’ve got a lot of Raider stuff, a lot of Raider history, man.’ All three Super Bowl trophies are gone . . . A lot of great Raider history from the 1970s and 1980s is gone.”