Melissa Rivers revealed during an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that she managed to save her mother Joan Rivers’ prized Emmy award before her house burned down in the L.A. fires (via Entertainment Weekly).

Melissa Rivers lost her home in the L.A. wildfires and revealed she grabbed her mom Joan Rivers' Emmy before she fled.

I grabbed my mom’s Emmy, a photo of my dad, and a drawing that my mother had done of my son and I,” Melissa Rivers said. She said later in the segment: “It’s amazing what you grab. I went for a drawing of my mother’s rather than a photo because I know I can find the photos.

Melissa said her "heart is so broken" as the Pacific Palisades was "wiped off the map" by the fires: "That's the end of everything that belonged to my family and the history of it."

The Emmy Award won by Joan Rivers in 1990 for her daytime talk show is one of the few things grabbed by her daughter Melissa Rivers as she fled her Pacific Palisades home before it fell victim to the Los Angeles fires.

Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa had to act fast as fire approached her Pacific Palisades-area, but she managed to grab her famous mother’s Emmy before evacuating. In a live interview Wednesday evening,

Melissa Rivers is facing "the end of everything that belonged to [her] family and the history of it" after her home fell victim to the raging Palisades Fire and other California wildfires. But there are a few sentimental tokens she was able to salvage before evacuating,