Driver Makes Splash at Theme Park : Accidents: Employee is rescued after her car goes into Red Sea attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood.

Where’s Charlton Heston when you really need him?

The actor could have been a big help Saturday afternoon when a wrong-way Universal Studios Hollywood employee drove her car into the theme park’s Red Sea attraction.

The young woman, who works in the studio’s wardrobe department, was rescued unharmed from the middle of the lake about an hour later by Los Angeles County firefighters.

As Moses in “The Ten Commandments,” one of his most famous movie roles, Heston parted the waters of the mechanized “sea” on the studio’s lot. Now, it’s a popular attraction on the studio tour tram ride.

But the hapless wardrobe employee wasn’t familiar with how it works, said Fire Capt. Rod Washington.

“She got there after the lake had parted so a tram could go through,” he said. “So all she saw was the path that’s about as wide as a road, and she thought she could go through there, too.”

Pharaoh’s soldiers believed the same things 3,000 years ago. They were wrong, and so was she.

As a tram exits the lake, it triggers a device that causes the parting waters to meet, Washington said. “She was trapped.”

Studio workers used underwater pumps to lower the water level to keep the woman’s car from completely submerging, Firefighter John Anderson said.

Then an Urban Search and Rescue team from West Hollywood arrived, using ropes and harnesses to rescue the 32-year-old woman, whose name was not released.

“Her ankles got a little wet, but she was unhurt,” Anderson said.

Also wet was a tour guide who jumped from his tram and rushed to help save the woman. To the amusement of tour-takers, he slipped on moss at the water’s edge and fell in. He was not injured and got out of the lake on his own, Anderson said.

Washington said he was stunned when firefighters got the rescue call about 2:20 p.m.

“I couldn’t believe it, but now I can understand how it happened,” Washington said.

It seems the young woman, who normally works during the week, is used to leaving by the studio’s back gate at the east end of the lot. That gate exits onto Barham Boulevard.

But the Barham gate was locked Saturday, forcing her to find another way out.

“She was going to attempt to exit on Lankershim at the west end of the studio,” Washington said. “But apparently, she wasn’t familiar with the tram ride.”

Or the movie.