Melissa Rivers lost everything she owned when her house burned in the Palisades fires, but says her mom's archive of jokes, kept on index cards, remain intact

Melissa Rivers has told how her mum Joan Rivers' catalogue of jokes has been saved from the Los Angeles fires. Melissa Rivers' home was destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire, but she's revealed some of her late mother's belongings were saved.

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.

The Emmy won by Joan Rivers for her daytime talk show is one of the few things grabbed by daughter Melissa Rivers as she fled her own Palisades home

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."

Michael Simon/Getty Images Melissa Rivers is reflecting on what she lost in the Los Angeles wildfires - none of which was her late mom Joan Rivers' heirlooms. "The jokes and the major archival pieces,