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

I went for a drawing of my mother’s rather than a photo because I know I can find the photos.” Melissa Rivers s

"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

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 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).

Rivers is among several celebrities who have lost their homes in the wildfires, including Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, Paris Hilton, Anna Faris, Billy Crystal, James Woods, and others. More than 1,000 homes, businesses, and buildings have been destroyed by the devastating fires across the Los Angeles area.

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.

As wildfires continue to devastate the Los Angeles area, many celebrities including Anna Faris, Melissa Rivers, Billy Crystal and Paris Hilton are mourning the loss of their family homes.

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."

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,