Coyotes in Manchester? No one's saying for sure, but a Pennsylvania visitor who police found 15 feet up in a tree before dawn today told police the howls she heard sounded real enough for her to climb up. Getting down became her problem..and finding her was the police's dilemma.

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Officers were alerted to April Lewis's predicament at about 3:05 AM by a caller on Portsmouth Street in the Whiting section, who reported hearing a woman's cries for help emerging from nearby woods while he was smoking outdoors.

Responding officers, following the sound of her voice, entered a dense thicket near America's Keswick, Schoolhouse Road and the JCP&L power-line easement.

As the Quakertown 28-year-old's calls diminished in frequency and intensity, police called in Whiting volunteer firefighters and a K-9 eam from the Ocean County Sheriff's Department.

Officer Arthur Cronk, leading the search with Officers Brian Volk and Michael Anderson, pinpointed her location by generating a response from her, police said.

Lewis, vacationing at America's Keswick, took a stroll in the woods at about 10 PM Sunday, leaving her cell phone at her site, according to authorities.

She told officers that she believed she heard, or observed, at least one coyote. She scaled the tree, cut part of her pants leg away, and used it to secure herself to it, police said. Then, her legs became too weak to return to the ground.

She was helped down by firefighters and police, evaluated by Quality Medical Transport technicians, and given a green light to finish her vacation with no further medical treatment.

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