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).

"I grabbed my mom's Emmy, a photo of my dad and a drawing that my mother had done of me and my son," Melissa Rivers says

Melissa lost her a 7,048-square-foot, six-bedroom Mediterranean-style home in Santa Monica in the Palisades Fire on Wednesday.

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,

In the frantic moments before flames devoured her Pacific Palisades residence, Melissa Rivers managed to rescue precious mementos of her late mother, Joan Rivers, including a coveted Emmy Award and an irreplaceable family drawing.

Melissa Rivers, the daughter of late comedian Joan Rivers, told CNN on Wednesday that she grabbed the essentials, like passports and birth certificates, before her home burned in the wildfires that are sweeping Los Angeles, but she also made sure to take a drawing of her mother’s.

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

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."