A crowd of hundreds of people are all fixed on something off in the distance.
There is a fire in the distance.
The crowd could be fixed on any number of things; the sentence does not imply that there is a fire.
exists e1 s1 s2 x1 x2 x3 x4 x5.(n_distance(x5) & a_all(s2) & Manner(e1,s2) & in(e1,x5) & a_off(s1) & Manner(e1,s1) & on(e1,x4) & n_thing(x4) & Theme(e1,x1) & v_fix(e1) & of(x1,x2) & of(x2,x3) & n_people(x3) & n_hundred(x2) & n_crowd(x1))
exists p1 x1 x3.(n_distance(x3) & exists x2.((x1 = x2) & in(x2,x3) & n_fire(x2)))