A fire destroyed the largest halfway house in Paterson, N.J., on Saturday, displacing about 200 residents who the city’s mayor said had been trying to turn their lives around while recovering from addiction.

Plumes of smoke from the fire, which broke out around 11 a.m. at the Straight & Narrow halfway house, could be seen for miles.

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Paterson, which runs the house, said no one was injured and all of the residents were accounted for and were being relocated to other properties it owns, including a gymnasium at a nearby community center.

“Where are they going to go from here?” the mayor, André Sayegh, asked on Saturday evening. “Those who were living there at Straight & Narrow may have lost everything.”